"Failure" can be transformed when you learn something of value from it. Every experience — unwelcome as well as welcome — contributes to the discovery of your destiny: what you are in this life to learn; what you are in this life to give. Even the most insightful among us find it difficult to predict which events in our lives will ultimately turn out to be significant — or our greatest blessings.
— Stephanie Dowrick in Choosing Happiness: Life & Soul Essentials