Quotes About Coping

I try to cope with everything through humor.

People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.

There's only so many ways you can cope with being in dire means, and one way is humour.

I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.

I have a good sense of humour, and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up.

my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.

I take a giant breath, roll my anger up into a red rubber ball, and mentally kick it out into space.

Things might not be great, but things would be okay.

I rolled my eyes and set my head in my hands, as if it was too much for me, and it almost was.

It is always consoling to think of suicide; it's what gets one through many a bad night.

he was a priest Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I had carried this awful thing around with me for a year, I had thought and thought and cried and worried myself sick over what would happen to my Paul, if not on earth, then after his death Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and then he, a priest, had taken it so Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not calmly, but, well, matter-of-factly.

Laughter is a rescue. p.204

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

It's easier to get over a thing Scobie said, if you talk about it

There's no meaning to be found in tragedy. Only in our response to it.

God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When

When you get stuck, remember that you can deal with physical issues intellectually and intellectual issues emotionally. You can work out emotional issues psychologically and psychological issues spiritually. Those are the spokes of the wheel—one breaks, you can use another to fix it.

Thinking and dreaming of what happened is a far different experience than giving voice to events that haunt you. You cry when you tell someone something. You shake. You get sick. You seek comfort. When you don't speak about it and just think it, you don't fall apart.

No lube needed, I just primed the pump," the man said. Everything that was happening to Celesta was beyond wrong, but what was happening now was beyond her comprehension. She screamed out in pain. "Shut up, bitch!" said the man who had raped her first. The other remained silent while violating Celesta with some kind of a cylindrical device. It was rigid, cool, not made of flesh. The

depression only happens to people who don't know how to be sad.

Depression only happens to people who don't know how to be sad.

I joked and laughed about things that made other less wounded hearts weep, and I'd learned to harden myself against loss and death.