If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

How much more pleasant this world would be if we magnified our blessings the way we magnify our disappointments.

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences — good and bad alike — are opportunities to learn and grow.

I only find joy in my own successes, I'm limiting my joy. But if I can take pleasure in the successes of my friends and family–ten, twenty, fifty people!–I get to experience fifty times the happiness and joy. Who doesn't want that?

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true.

Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

It is a kind of happiness to know just how unhappy we could be.

The possibility of highly visible failure has an exceptional power to propel us to want to succeed, and that power can be harnessed to motivate a team or even a community to do something difficult.

we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

shared joy is multiplied, shared grief is diminished

If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.

No matter what you or I achieve, in sports, business, or life, we can’t be satisfied. Life is too dynamic a game. We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse. Yes, we need to celebrate our victories. There’s power in victory that’s transformative, but after our celebration we should dial it down, dream up new training regimens, new goals, and start at zero the very next day.

I also came away with a greater sense of value, because the true blessings of life are illuminated by the contrasts. It’s hard to genuinely appreciate winning until you’ve done some losing. It’s hard to appreciate succeeding until you’ve done some failing. And once you’ve done some failing, success takes on even more worth and value.

It is far better to dare mighty triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to dwell with those poor and timid souls knowing neither victory nor defeat.