Victorious

Success or failure is determined solely by the measure of it. 

We do not know the end, and so who can say with any real certainty what is in the grand scheme either success or failure? 

Experiencing the appearance of failure by the standards of this world, is to be expected if we are striving for success by the standards of the next.

Everything costs something, nothing is free, even if the price is simply an exchange of one thing for another.

And so it may be that the perception of one's greatest successes are in fact their greatest failures.