Excerpts from Wilfred A. Peterson Essay “The Art of Failure”
He lives on the principle of “nothing attempted, nothing gained” and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
He does the best he can and then with a serene spirit accepts what comes.
He learns from the scientist who said, “At best, research is about 99 percent failure and 1 percent success and the 1 percent is the only thing that counts.
He knows that when the blows of life knock a man down, the important thing is not to stay down. He develops the quality of bounce, rebounding from defeat as a rubber ball rebounds when you throw it to the floor.
He rises to the challenge of failure as did Mark Twain when he wrote, “A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.”
He keeps on going on.
Quotations
Aquarian Axioms
To obtain the knowledge of Self is a greater achievement than to command the elements or to know the future.Thomas a Kempis
God has furnished us with constant occasions of bearing one another's burdens. For there is no man living without his failings; no man that is so happy as never to give offence; no man without his load of trouble; no man so sufficient as never to need assistance .Miguel de Cervantes
Patience, and shuffle the cardss.Psalms
He shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, That yieldeth its fruit in its season, And whose leaf doth not wither.Neils Bohr
Clarity is gained through breadth.The Voice of the Silence
Self-Knowledge is of loving deeds the child.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.Craftsman's Aphorism
Measure twice, cut once.Eartha Kitt
I have to keep testing myself.
