The most glorious moments in your life
are not the so-called days of success,
but rather those days
when out of dejection and despair
you feel rise in you a challenge to life,
and the promise of future accomplishment.

君の人生の最も輝かしい時は
いわゆる成功の日々ではなく
むしろ
失意と絶望の中から
人生に挑戦しようという気持ちと
将来の達成を期する確たる思いが
胸中に湧き上がるのを感じる日々である

From Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. 1821-1880