Quotes About Coping

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Reason is still our signature tool for coping with a complex reality, yet it is easily subverted by overconfidence, cognitive closure, and biases.

We use right pain like a vaccine against the unavoidable pain and suffering that life always sends our way, but the dose must be correct. Asana practice is an opportunity to look at obstacles in practice and life and discover how we can cope with them.

I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.

Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

Losing a family member is extremely difficult for anyone to take. But the normal reaction is to want to get back to your work as soon as you can.

I feel life is not about what happens to you, but about your reactions to what has happened to you.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.

Real life is difficult - some people find that hard to process.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It's part of our grief process. If we don't know what else to do, we laugh. That's a very real thing.

When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.

This ain't bad-guy talk, cos I'm not a bad guy. But people don't realise what fear can do. I've had situations where I've been so scared, where I can't sleep, I can't eat, and it's gone on for weeks and it's ruining my life. It makes you sick, it makes you mentally ill.

At a certain point, I think, you harden yourself to the realities of the business.

Food or the lack thereof can, at times, be coping mechanisms for people. While this isn't the best approach to good health, it's a part of people's realities. And it is nothing to be ashamed of.

When I married into the military a few years ago, I was failing at navigating the realities of deployment alone. When I turned to the military family community, their tried and true coping skills changed my life.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.