Quotes About Coping

A group of girls didn't like me and picked on me on a daily basis.

I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.

You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Every time I'm feeling anxious, I go to my little meditation corner in my room and write down whatever I'm feeling. If I'm feeling terrible, I write that I'm feeling terrible and I accept that and I keep going, but I'm not going to wallow in that moment.

I may have punched walls when no one else was around.

It's very important for me to do things like talk therapy. That's where you begin to see the walls that your illness has put up as a way to protect yourself... but of course, those walls also keep us from getting to the truth of things.

I have never known what it feels like to wake up in the morning full of the joys of spring, and wander through the day feeling capable of coping.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

I read fantasy books like the Harry Potter books, 'Twilight,' also biographies, and I like to read about people who have been through stuff like wars or lost their families - real life stuff, you know? I like to read about their experiences and how they coped with that.

Even if people threw tomatoes at me and booed me off stage, at least you can wash out tomatoes, unlike nine hours of abuse from the general public which can affect your mental health.

I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.

In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.

You'll be okay, Chels," I said. The words seemed lame, but I knew the truth of them. Or at least it seemed like I was getting over Dylan. I only thought about him every minute of every day now, instead of every second.

Don't worry now about what you can't change. Rest when you can so you'll be ready for tomorrow's battles.

Grieving is a way of self-care.

If my mind began to wander again, I found a way to distract it. Stay busy. Get drunk. Get laid. Anything to escape the chamber of torture that was my mind.

I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead.

A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

Whenever I have a problem, I sing. Then I realize my voice is a lot worse than my problem.

Sometimes, when things are confusing, we try and make sense of it our own way; we find ways of coping up.

Oh, yes -- very easy to talk about death, but not so easy to manage the dying.