Quotes About Coping

Distress, however much you tried to compartmentalize it, put you in an illogical frame of mind.

This practice asks you to embrace this well-validated strategy by making time to write a letter to yourself when faced with demanding or uncertain circumstances.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with such severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

The human spirit is a mysterious thing: traumas that flatten some people bounce off of others.

Because it doesn't seem like living to me, it seems like persevering, like it's the most I can hope for.

Denial, anger, acceptance

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I read the opening lines of the book, and it's like my own pages are coming unstuck. For so long, all I've felt is fear, and all this time, it was grief. I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone. A miracle, in twenty-six letters.

Shouldn't I stay? Soldier through it? Maybe if I'd had some practice, maybe if I'd had more devastation in my life, I would be more prepared to go on. It's not that my life has been perfect. I've had disappointments and I've been lonely and frustrated and angry and all the crappy stuff everyone feels.

Entonces, dice—. ¿Haces eso a menudo? ¿Seguir adelante? —Quizás. Pero sólo porque viajo mucho. Golpetea con ritmo en el volante, audible sólo para ella. —O quizás viajas mucho porque te permite seguir adelante.

Maybe if I'd had some practice, maybe if I'd had more devastation in my life, I would be more prepared to go on.

I cannot scream until my throat hurts or break a window with my fist until my hand bleeds, or pull my hair out in clumps until the pain in my scalp overcomes the one in my heart

Shouldn't I stay? Soldier through it? Maybe if I'd had some practice, maybe if I'd had more devastation in my life, I would be more prepared to go on. It's not that my life has been perfect. I've had disappointments and I've been lonely and frustrated and angry and all the crappy stuff everyone feels. But in terms of heartbreak, I've been spared. I've never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.

Universal law of equilibrium. Escape one horror, get hit by another.

If your in pain,

They don't know about the mornings when anger is the one thing—the only thing—to get you through the day. If they take that from me, I'm wide open: raw and gaping, and then I don't stand a fucking chance.

then I took out a notepad and wrote my first poem. Across three thousand miles of sea and through strange England's smiling, and into a wee Scots Highland town there is a lad who's crying. Oh fool the world, he could, he could, a man at twenty years . . . but all alone in that Highland town there is a boy in tears.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

She'd always known that a strong capacity for self-deception and ignoring unpleasant realities had to be useful somewhere.

She wasn't quite at the point of stepping out onto the motorway to play with the oncoming traffic, but it was close.

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.