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Quotes About Coping

don't know how to navigate this," she whispered. "Like anything hard in life. You breathe through it for one minute at a time. That becomes ten minutes, then twenty, then an hour. And before you know it, you've made it through another day, then a week, then a month. And if you're lucky, very lucky, you have someone there to hold your hand and help you through.
~ RaeAnne Thayne
So the UCRW commandeered a bunch of film projectors from Delhi, and set them up in Kurukshetra. Among the movies shown were Disney specials featuring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. With large cloth screens allowing for two-way projection, crowds of up to 15,000 could watch a single show. This 'two-hour break from reality', commented a social worker, 'was a lifesaver. The refugees forgot their shock experiences and misery for two golden hours of laughter.
~ Ramachandra Guha
I think it's all that's holding me together," Kade said. "Then perhaps you should fall apart," Ananda replied.
~ Ramez Naam
Psychiatrists are supposed to help their patients get in touch with things they are trying to avoid.
~ Randolph M. Nesse
Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations.
~ Randolph M. Nesse
The mechanisms our minds use to anticipate the results of our actions are inadequate for coping with modern media.
~ Randolph M. Nesse
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
~ Randy Pausch
We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.
~ Randy Pausch
That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond.
~ Randy Pausch
I let the slide linger, so the audience could follow the arrows and count my tumors. "All right," I said. "That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
~ Randy Pausch
That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." In
~ Randy Pausch
This is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
~ Randy Pausch
I couldn't bring this sorrow home. Couldn't tell my wife. Wouldn't tell my children. As my friend Edward Dee says, we live in the worst twenty minutes of someone else's life. So I leave it behind . . . where it happened . . . where it belongs . . . not in my house.
~ Randy Sutton
The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. —Sigmund Freud
~ Ray Kurzweil
Tractores, mi vida, tractores, mira los surcos que dejan. Mientras tú lloras ellas ya le están haciendo llorar a otro. Y hacen bien, y tú tendrías que hacer lo mismo.
~ Ray Loriga
You have to eat and keep going. Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this.
~ Raymond Carver
There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
~ Raymond Carver
Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I have had PTSD since I was in a car accident when I was 16.
~ Stephanie Land
I got bullied so much at 11 and 12 that I became the bully. I didn't want to get bullied no more. And that just carried on through my life.
~ Metta World Peace
I had a lot of issues in my life after my brother died in 1972, that I carried through to my adult life.
~ Nigel Benn
Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.
~ Karen Salmansohn
It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.
~ Jenny Lewis
My move from Southampton to Chelsea was not easy and if I had moved country I don't know how I would have coped to be honest.
~ Wayne Bridge