Quotes About Coping

There is an element of control we have over suffering.

I never stopped writing. It was what I did, no matter where I was or how my circumstances changed. One of the reasons I remember those early Bombay months so well is that, whenever I was alone, I wrote about those new friends and the conversations we shared. And writing was one of the things that saved me: the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.

Writing was one of the things that saved me: the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.

the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.

I don't know what scares me more, she declared, the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.

We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it's hard to process what's going on in our world. It's reassuring to see the good winning.

My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it's a muscle that can do no more.

Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

As professional sportsmen at the top of the game we do have worries. We do think of the worst and that's absolutely fine. There's no weakness in feeling like that.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

To say, 'I don't worry about perception,' you better worry about perception because it's a big part of making it through some very difficult times.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

When I find myself worrying, I have to give myself a severe talking to.

It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have to talk about your problems.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going to die, and it takes everything in me to stay calm. But there are worse things to have to cope with.

When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.

We all go through things in life, and it's just how you deal with it. Try to stay positive throughout the worst.

The worst part about ALS is that one day, you're able to brush your teeth; then you'll never be able to brush your teeth again. One day, you're able to walk - you're never going to walk again.