"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."

"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."

"Failures can be a powerful way to learn and ironically provide the means for life's greatest breakthroughs and successes."