which were just the

Mentally separating good failures from bad failures takes

work. Poker is a simple game where the laws of

probability are cleanly defined. Real life is a lot

messier. It takes more effort to decide which failures

were because of a bad decision and which were just the

unintended side-effects of the best choice available.

Although it can be difficult to separate the two, there

are benefits to making two piles instead of just one. By

separating the two types of failures, it is easier to

persevere through good failures. It may hurt to have your

Business proposal shut down for the fifteenth time, but

it isn't necessarily a bad failure.

all lovers

No one understands the nature of love; it is like a bird of heaven that sings a strange language. It lights down among us, coming from whence we know not, going we know not how or when, striking out wild notes of music that make even fatigued and heavy hearts to throb and give back a tone of courage.

The sorts and kinds of love are infinite in number, infinite as the days of the years of time. Each one of us is capable of many and various loves. We cannot love two creatures, not two dogs, with the same love. To each of those whom we love we offer a gem of different colour and value;—to the unknown Master of the heavens, ah! who shall tell of what sort is the love we offer to Him? Yet in this love, too (which is natural worship), we discover the same vibrational atmosphere that invades the soul of all lovers.