Another one of my fathers maxims was that I had “the same pants to get glad in that I got mad in”. Maybe it was his way of saying “suck it up, buttercup!”

His point was that the person that I had to coexist with and reconcile my feelings with was me. The statement was meant to cause me to pause, reflect, process the emotion and then move on so I (and he) did not have to coexist with an angry me for an extended period.