Quotes About Coping

I'll fake it through the day somehow with Johnny Walker Red.

Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.

Rage is a useful emotion. Rage burns away sorrow and disgrace.

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.

Moreover, when there is rough ground to be covered, a glass of wine does not go amiss.

By all accounts Rafe's life had been shattered by the loss of his brother Peter. But whereas she turned away from drink when Draven died, Rafe had simply upended a barrel of brandy on his head and hadn't taken that hat off since.

I had no idea how to live, but I didn't want to die.

I would shut myself away in my room, just like I had as a kid when my parents were fighting, and try and ignore what was happening.

I wished that things had been different, but it was what it was. Sometimes you have to look at the hand you've been dealt and throw in

Everyone needs self-confidence including you. Yes! for, it allows one or you to make mistakes and yet cope with them and failures without feeling that one's or your own world has come to an end. It equally makes one or you never to feel worthless and hopeless in life. Thus, you've got to be self-confident. ~Emeasoba George.

Everyone needs self-confidence including you. Yes! for, it allows one or you to make mistakes and yet cope with them and failures without feeling that one's or your own world has come to an end. It equally makes one or you never to feel worthless and hopeless in life. Thus, you've got to be self-confident.

Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not expect.

We can endure any truth, however destructive

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated.

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

You carry this pain around inside all day and all night long. No way to beat it--no way. But when I started getting high, I was cool, and it didn't bother me. And I wasn't lonely then, it was all right. And the chicks--I could handle them, they couldn't reach me. And I didn't know I was hooked--until I was hooked.

It is extremely rare for young men, when driven to suicide, to attempt it a second time if the first fails. When it doesn't cure life, it cures all desire for voluntary death.

You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life.

I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of it...

When people start getting depressed there's just no end to it—things just seem to get worse and worse.

Without a prospect in sight, day after day went by, like losing one's mind bit by bit. I would repeat to myself, like a prayer: It's all right, it's all right, the day will come when you'll pull out of this.

You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life." With that she looked up at me, smiling.