Quotes About Coping

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

In addition to reaching out for help, you will also need to reach within yourself. Your biggest ally will be your emotions. Through them, you will learn more about what really happened to you, how the abuse affected you, and what you need to do in order to heal. Your emotions will enable you to reclaim the self you long ago hid away.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can fi nd humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bruce Wayne: I know. You keep thinking, If only I had done something differently. If only I could have...warned them. But there isn't anything you could have done. There isn't anything either of us could have done. Dick Grayson: Your mom and dad? Does the hurt ever go away? Bruce Wayne: I wish I could say yes. But it will get better in time. For you. That I promise.

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

I was bullied for the best part of my childhood, and still it comes easy to me. I have to have to bite my lip, to quit from apologising for people walking into me, standing on my feet, and letting go of doors in my face.

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. You do what you must do, and you do it well.

She'd lived with the situation for years and she hoped, but did not pray, that she had several more years. Unfortunately, she was a realist and she knew time cared as little for her hopes as it would for her prayers.

Si la souffrance contraint à la créativité, cela ne signifie pas qu'il faille être contraint à la souffrance pour devenir créatif.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story

La resiliencia es un proceso que siempre es posible, si la persona que se está desarrollando encuentra un objeto que le resulta significativo.

Le malheur n'est jamais pur, pas plus que le bonheur. Un mot permet d'organiser une autre manière de comprendre le mystère de ceux qui s'en sont sortis : la résilience, qui désigne la capacité à réussir, à vivre, à se développer en dépit d'adversité.

Quand on est malheureux, le plaisir nous fair peur.

Personne ne prétend que la résilience est une recette de bonheur. C'est une stratégie de lutte contre le malheur qui permet d'arracher du plaisir à vivre, malgré le murmure des fantômes du fond de sa mémoire.

The myths we create about ourselves are solely there so our brains can survive.

Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

She lived quite alone and whether the fault was hers or whether the fault was theirs I do not know. And a great deal of time went by and she did not speak to a living soul and a great wind of madness howled through her and overturned all her languages. And she forgot Italian, forgot English, forgot Latin, forgot Basque, forgot Welsh, forgot every thing in the world except Cat – and that, it is said, she spoke marvellously well.

But the fact that I couldn't hold my job was worrisome. I was probably crazy. I'd been skirting the idea of craziness for a year or two, now I was closing in on it. Pull yourself together! I told myself. Stop indulging yourself. There's nothing wrong with you. You're just wayward.

Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn't kill myself.

She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head .

She'd have to start smoking. There would be no other way through this.