Bearable Quote by James Rachels

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

— Clive James

Failure and triumphs are parts of life.

— Jwala Gutta

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

— Anonymous

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

— Jean Vanier

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage and stamina…

— Susan Barbara Apollon

We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all…

— Helmut Schoeck

We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life…

— Andre Dubus

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough