Quotes About Coping

El terror anula a los seres humanos, y para poder sobrevivir saca los peores instintos.

don't think any of us knows how we will react to a crisis until we are forced into one.

When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor.

when something happens to give you unease—well, you don't seem to know how to manage it. And you run. Or you decide it isn't worth it.

It's up to the individual to make the best of what life has dealt.

I think when you go through a breakup, the first initial thing you do is put on music.

I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.

I think we're all insecure about something, but there's a way to deal with those emotions healthily by seeking professional help earlier on.

The way I approach my insecurities is by making sure I'm the first person laughing at myself.

When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

It seemed to her that she'd been smoking in order to get through the days, not that her days were ornamented by cigarettes.

After all, historically it's always been dreadful for women, and the logic given them was "It's going to be dreadful so you may as well learn to enjoy it." I

Having spent the day defending myself from the slings and arrows of outrageous truck drivers and busboys, I am sometimes ill-equipped to suddenly assume an air of sensitive melancholy

The perpetual pursuit of food plans and trying to change your body size rob you of truly getting to know yourself and your emotions. Dieting can serve as a coping mechanism, as can over-exercising—which ultimately disconnects you from your feelings.

From one hour to the next a life may change.... But as I have thought and said for years, acceptance is a key to strength and practice makes it easier.

Maybe it never got easier for the families concerned. Perhaps they just got slowly more and more used to it until, one day, they were able to wake up and could simply ignore the pain and loss for whole hours at a time.

Does anger empower me in a powerless situation? If so, can I find another source of strength?

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Acceptance is a deceptive word. It suggests compliance, a consenting to my condition and to who I have become. This form of acceptance is often seen as weakness, submission. We say I accept my punishment. Or I accept your decision. But such assent, while passive in essence, does provide the stable, rocklike foundation for coping with a condition that will not go away. It is a powerful passivity, the Zen of Illness, that allows for endurance.

After the engine had faded away she did not dismount, but sat for a few minutes with her face in her hands, almost as if she was praying. If it was a prayer she was muttering, however, it was one full of all the swear words that Not-Triss had ever heard, and quite a few she had not.