Quotes About Coping

The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

In a matter of weeks I developed gray hair on the lower half of the sides of my head. In my culture, people refer to this phenomenon as the extreme result of depression.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

If your sight is poor, there's very little you can do.

Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become.

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don't always recognize and can't always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.

What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process.

The only cleavage I got left, I sit on," she said and then hooted at herself.

Tragedy can turn your life around if you're open to it.

Being fired is the pits, ranking right up there with infidelity in its brutalizing effect. The ego recoils and one's self-image is punctured like a tire by a nail. In the weeks since I'd been terminated, I'd gone through all the stages one suffers at the diagnosis of a soon-to-be-fatal disease: anger, denial, bargaining, drunkenness, foul language, head colds, rude hand gestures, anxiety, and eating disorders of sudden onset.

Love is our bulwark, designed to provide emotional protection so we can cope with the ups and downs of existence.

The third dance is Freeze and Flee, or as we sometimes call it in EFT, Withdraw-Withdraw. This usually happens after the Protest Polka has been going on for a while in a relationship, when dancers feel so hopeless that they begin to give up and put their own emotions and needs in the deep freeze, leaving only numbness and distance.

Hundreds of studies now show that positive loving connections with others protect us from stress and help us cope better with life's challenges and traumas.

Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. There's a place in you that is inviolate. You'll find your way there, when you need to. And you'll know then what I speak of.

As writer Isak Dinesen put it, "All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them.

It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn't contentment, but survival.

All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them.

Maybe we lost the things we loved then so we could survive losing every thing else.

tears are better if you shed them alone.

Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse?

Remember, tears are like rivers that start in one place and flow to another—they can help carry you to healing.