Quality, qualità , calidad, qualité.
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." - Henry David Thoreau
We've all heard the saying, "we look so longingly at the closed door that we don't see the one that has just opened before us." I have known the feeling. But what we don't know or can sense at the time is that what looks like a loss is often the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of our lives.
Robert Kennedy once said, "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
The quality of our lives is often more contingent on the quality of our failures and losses. When we doubt we can begin again, we allow our own mind to become the traitor on which the quality of our lives can be built.
Today, know this to be true; To affect the quality of our day, the quality of our lives, we must allow the quality of our losses to be instructive; or as President Barack Obama once said, "Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
Enjoy your Sunday Sabbath!
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