Quotes About Coping

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

If someone has gone through a lot of emotional pain, including the loss of loved ones, that person may try to build a shell around his or her feelings to protect him- or herself from the pain.

I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until I started addressing it.

I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I've learnt how to hide it.

You cannot hide yourself from any situation.

I've been at the bottom. I've lost loved ones, I've lost best friends, but that's part of life. I don't hide that.

I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

When you have no choice, you must just buckle down to misfortune Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and wait.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Life is hard and there will always be some who cannot adjust themselves to it.

When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

Sometimes with all the teasing his days were subtenable.

I say it must have been great to grow up when men were men. He says men have always been what the are now, namely incapable of coping with life without the intervention of God the Almighty. Then in the oven behind him my pizza starts smoking and he says case in point.

What we're doing in writing is not all that different from what we've been doing all our lives, i.e., using our personalities as a way of coping with life. Writing is about charm, about finding and accessing and honing ones' particular charms. To say that "a light goes on" is not quite right—it's more like: a fixture gets installed. Only many years later...will the light go on.

He has access to limited outrage. Sooner than we expect him to, he accepts his terrifying new state and goes on living, sad, peeved, but not rebellious; that would be impolite.

Perhaps, if she could be busy all the time, as she meant to be, she might not feel so unhappy; perhaps, in household cares, she could forget her love, or grow at least accustomed to desolation.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

Everyone reacts to things differently but just identifying in your own life, what works, seeing what doesn't, is as important for to you to talk about your own mental health.

I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.