Failure is respectable. Quitting is not. If you have worked hard and failed after giving every effort to make use of the opportunities available—so be it. At least you fought with all your might to make it otherwise. That is deserving of respect.

Every day grants us opportunities to do good. Take advantage of them. Do good. Be happy.

Try new hobbies. Develop new interests. Pursue new experiences. When you expand your interests, you increase your opportunities for happiness.

Here is a tender mercy: When life turns upside down and nothing is certain, everything is suddenly conceivable.