There is more to failing than we tend to think.  There is in fact hope hidden there among the failure.  You just have to know where to look.
 

As writers, we face a lot of rejection and criticism.  It can be disheartening.  It is probably true that all writers feel like failures at some point.  I know I have felt that way many times.

So, I want to offer you these wonderful quotes about failure from Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden.

"Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt - marvelous error! -
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
From my old failures."
- Antonio Machado
Part of his poem “Last Night As I Was Sleeping”
(version by Robert Bly)

"Imagine the possibility that every single turn of events, however dark or disappointing the outcome, can in some circuitous way be the raw material for something that eventually surfaces with the sweetness of honey."
-Roger Housden

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