Quotes About Coping

What do you do when you despair, and there isn't an August Rain to drown your sorrow?

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Like they say: you stew up your troubles and eat a hearty meal.

It doesn't matter," she said. "Life is full of stupid things and sometimes we just have to do them.

I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

They don't commit suicide. They don't weep. But they can and do fall to pieces. They can and do have their hearts broken. They can and do lose their minds.

Breaking down in tears won't help her and we don't have time to cycle through the stages of grief. Or, if it will make you feel better, I can do so quickly: This can't be — it's not fair! Why don't you take me instead, God? I'm so sad. But I have to get on with my life.

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

Post-traumatic stress is a powerful force with the ability to change us. Even the strongest of us.

When friends asked how he was coping with his spectacular loss, he would say, 'I sleep like a baby – I wake up every ten minutes screaming!' He was advised on health grounds to take a holiday, so he went to his home in Ibiza and ran regularly on the beach. 'Someone asked me later how much I had lost. I said, "$300 million and 20lbs.

What breaks the heart, adjust the mind.

Seeing isn't always believing. Traumatic events are often accompanied by a form of disassociation.

In good times I cry often, shedding tears easily, but when times are bad, my ducts go dry and I almost never weep.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

If we don't allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas.

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

When no one loves you, you have to pretend that everyone loves you.

We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

When speaking of love, and suffering a broken heart, the student said, 'You can't drown if you vow to never swim again.' To which the master replied, 'You will also never choke if you don't eat.'

Her texts indicated she had been spending a lot more time in the maintenance shed building since Stevie had been gone, and that she was getting much more serious with Vi Harper-Tomo.

There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and frustration - all the emotions that are an ordinary part of their lives and that they can perceive only as as ungovernable and dangerous forces. To master these forces, children turn to fantasy: that imagined world where disturbing emotional situations are solved to their satisfaction.