Failure
If you do not ever fail, then your goals are not nearly ambitious enough. If you do not come across new challenges on a regular basis, your abilities and effectiveness will become stale and weak.
Comfort is a good state in which to find rest, renewal and refuge for a while. It is a dreary and dismal place to take up permanent residence.

The reason life can be so rich is precisely because it can be so difficult. You cannot possibly appreciate or fully benefit from the good things if you have no experience with the bad things.

When your efforts are met with failure, you know you are on to something. Because on the other side of that failure is real and substantive accomplishment.

Seek not to create failure, nor to avoid failure. Seek instead to allow failure, when it comes, to keep you moving on the path to greater success.

Failure confirms that you are reaching higher. And higher is always the best direction to reach.

-- Ralph Marston

Thanks for posting this. It's a great thing to remember. I personally have such an issue with allowing failure into my life. It's hard for me to put my all into something and allow for the possibility of failing. So thank you for this quote. It really speaks to me.

Thank you! Its good to remember that failure is just a life lesson to chalk up. I heard it took something like 1200 tries to achieve the invention of the light bulb. Crazy awesome.