That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
Source: From a collection of quotations found on the Internet.
-- Richard Bach, (Jun 23 1936-____), US novelist, author; He wrote the allegorical novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull; filmed, 1973.