At a Highlights Foundation workshop in 2002, Jerry said: "...failure is not a pitfall or a pothole, but a stepping stone... It is only after stepping from one stone to the next... and the next... and the next, that you look back and discover that on the stepping stones of your failures you have crossed the creek."
Here's to crossing the creek. Maybe the next rejection or the one after that will be the stepping stone that gets you across.
If failures are stepping stones across the creek of life, then I imagine that eventually, my little creek will be completely paved over - in which case it will have morphed from a creek to be crossed, into a path to be followed.
ReplyDeleteSo I say, bring on the failure! Because who doesn't love (finally) having dry feet?
Very wise, Kim. And I hear you. I'm beginning to think my creek is the width of the Mississippi River!
DeleteI needed this today!!!
ReplyDeleteGlad to be of help, Kat!
DeleteYAY! Yes. Okay.
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Next step...
Yes. There's always a next step. That's because we're writers and we're not giving up!
DeleteThanks for visiting, Kristen.
What a great, inspiring quote. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Natalie!
DeleteGreat quote, Joanne! Thanks for sharing!
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