Quotes About Coping

Every situation I have ever been in I have been trained for, and I dealt with it to the best of my abilities.

I've experienced racism and homophobia my whole life, so I've trained myself to just deal with it calmly, to not cause a scene, and to find a way to calm the situation down.

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

I tend to panic and fear on a low-grade level every day, but when something really disastrous happens, I kick into super high gear; a kind of transcendent, save-everybody mind-set.

Ali kad sam preživjela trenutak one jezive usamljenosti na rubu ludila, znala sam da ?u se izvu?i. Uostalom, i bez emocija se može sasvim normalno živjeti. Kad ti iš?upaju srce, uklone ti sposobnost da patiš. Godinama nakon toga, osje?am se bolje, mirnije gledam na svoju situaciju. Još uvijek imam prijatelje, izlazim, uživam u razgovorima i izložbama.

But the good news is, the whiskey works.

The one who learns to live with his incapacity has learned a great deal.

it's stupid to be that way, so easily hurt; it's better to be like a plank of wood, an emotional mule. It's best not to feel,...best to have your nerve endings cauterized.

Anger was better than weeping.

anger is always fear in disguise

Uncomplicated birth seems to be the blueprint for coping with all later difficult situations in life. Various complications, such as prolonged and debilitating delivery, the use of forceps, or heavy anesthesia appear to be correlated to specific problems in dealing with future projects of all kinds. The same is true for induced birth, premature delivery, and Caesarean section.

coping with life, the logic of the disease concept does the contrary. It leads all concerned, including the drinker, to deny, to ignore, to discount what meaning that way of life may have. Seen as an involuntary symptom of a disease, the drinking is isolated from the rest of life, and viewed as the meaningless but destructive effect of a noxious condition, a "disease.

Instead of encouraging those concerned to see the drinking in the context of the person's way of life, and thus to discern what role or roles it may play for that person in coping

He was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she could with three.

You're better than an AA meeting, Marigold. And way cheaper than a therapist." She laughed, then trailed off into a wistful sigh. "I need a friend, Marigold. I wish you would wake up." But for my sake… or for hers?

For some of us, it's safer to believe there's something wrong with us than to be aware of the reality of our lives.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.

the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can't accept.