Lessons on Failure

I use to be petrified of failure. So much so that when choices would come up I would refuse to make a move. I would just sit, waiting for a choice to be forced on me so that I wouldn’t make the wrong choice or choose an “OK” option while surpassing the better choice. Learning to overcome this fear is important for forward progression both in life and with art.

That being said, here are a few quotes that I’ve definitely experienced first hand at one time in my life:

• “Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know.” ~Amy Poehler

• “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.” ~Pema Chödrön

• “We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what’s left is who we truly are.” ~Arianna Huffington

• “Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.” ~Jon Sinclair

• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal — it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~Winston Churchill

• “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” ~Joseph Chilton Pearce

• “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” ~Joseph Campbell

• “To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been.” ~Benjamin Franklin

• “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” ~Auguste Rodin