>  *A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.*

This line resonated with me most. I find it to be very true, and liberating.


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> “So you think that you're a failure, do ya? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you have any sense at all, we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail! But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.” 
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

This quote came from a character in the book I'm reading (I'm liking it so much, I'm thinking book review to come) who is a new psychiatrist that doesn't listen to his patients but instead works out his own problems through them. Only such a thing could occur in fiction, right?? Hmmm