Quotes About Coping

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

What happens to us is not as important as how we respond.

Besides, it's good to cry. Gets rid of all those bad feelings, takes away some of the despair.

Healthy faith helps you find solutions and peace, even as you cope with difficult people.

Finding ways to handle the negative feelings requires conscious thought on your part.

I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

after all, spinal disorders do not usually attack life, though they disable and overthrow. The pain you endure is the terrible thing. Has a local application of chloroform been ever tried?

I was quite frightened about the effect of Wilson's leaving him. We managed to prepare him as well as we could, and when he found she was actually gone, the passion of grief I had feared was just escaped. He struggled with himself, the eyes full of tears, and the lips quivering, but there was not any screaming and crying such as made me cry last year on a like occasion. He had made up his mind.

Anyway, dissociation is a great coping skill. It can keep you going and functional basically forever. The problems hit when it starts to break down, which is essentially as soon as you start to question your own detachment.

It helped me to deal with the feelings, too. Talking them out. Even if it was only to a recorder.

Sly and sickways. I have to swallow my grief and my hope before it all spills down my face again: somehow she's not broken yet.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can

Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.

Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope.

differently?" "I cannot go back and choose again," he replied. "So I don't ask myself what I could have done. I ask myself how I can live with it today.

Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.

Charity knew that she had to be up early in the morning. And she knew that a weepy, silly, ridiculously old-fashioned love story was not the thing to watch with a broken heart. Nevertheless, she watched. And wept. And was still smiling when she fell asleep at three o'clock in the morning, with the remote in her hand and the telly still going.

Charity couldn't bring herself to cry on Lady Beddington's shoulder -- not until after she'd mopped up a plate or two of spaghetti with buckets of cheap red wine.

I know how you're feeling, because for me it's like that every day, like life's this huge big ocean that could swallow me and no walls or floor to hold on to. So of course you want to grab hold of whatever you're used to grabbing,

Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.

While we're talking about my dreams, about how I'm gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.

She counted on herself to withstand everything. And yet, who said she had to? What would happen if she broke down now and then?

Ice cream is just a Band-Aid. Pain is still there when you wake up.

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are