Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
Robert Louis StevensonRead
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life is about persevering through failures with a positive attitude.
This quote by Robert Louis Stevenson emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive mindset despite the inevitable failures we encounter in life. It suggests that rather than focusing solely on success, our true goal should be to embrace failures with good spirits, learning from them and continuing our journey with resilience and optimism.
Themes
FailurePerseveranceOptimismResilienceLife
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about handling setbacks in a career.
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His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.
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Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.
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