Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.
You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.