"Changing our perspective is often the key to finding success in seeming failure. Optimistic thinking has sometimes gotten a bad rap as being unrealistic, but research has found that we can indeed live happier, healthier, and more successful lives if we can learn to discover the opportunities in problems. These problems then become merely challenging opportunities that we can turn to our advantage. They provide opportunities for personal growth and can stimulate our creativity for finding better ways to live."

"Most failures are simply challenges in progress that can provide a foundation for success."

"It is only through seeming failure that most of life's greatest successes are achieved. Usually, failure or success is almost entirely in the eye of the beholder."