Emily Giffin Quotes

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.

My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

There have been bumps, but everything has happened for a reason - maybe apart from the loss of some loved ones - and we have always tried to find a positive from it.

Although sometimes it's very difficult, if you're willing to look hard enough, you can find positives in every situation.

Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!

Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.

We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.