Quotes About Coping

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.

You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

I just realized that there are going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with them in the right way.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

It won't make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn't let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life.

When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope with our situation more productively.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems." Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts

TMS patients cope only too well in reality; it is their unconscious minds that are cowardly. The best evidence of the validity of this concept is the fact that patients are able to stop the process simply by learning about it.

He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment.