One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.
Interpretation
Embracing failure can lead to personal resilience and acceptance.
This quote highlights the importance of accepting failures as a natural part of life. Tina Brown suggests that after experiencing setbacks, one can learn that such events do not define their worth or happiness, ultimately fostering a sense of resilience and self-acceptance.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech to encourage others to embrace their failures.
It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.
I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.
Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity.
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
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