Quotes About Coping

the wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets—a vicious circle.

As in the inflammations and fevers of physical illness, what looks like trouble may be the very process by which healing takes place. As we become better able to endure life's slings and arrows, our coping mechanisms mature, and vice versa.

There are two pillars of happiness revealed by the seventy-five-year-old Grant Study (and exemplified by Dr. Godfrey Minot Camille). One is love. The other is finding a way of coping with life that does not push love away. And that is why I offer Dr. Camille's story as a sort of outline of the terrain we'll be covering through the rest of this book.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

People are ruled by their emotions, Conlan, and anger is one of the most powerful emotions we can experience. It can fester if you don't vent it. Always take that into account.

Repeated exposure to fear-inducing stimuli creates familiarity, which in turn greatly reduces anxiety.

In a word, I desperately want this tragedy to be over and for us to try to survive it, that's all. What's important is to live: Primum vivere. One day at a time. To survive, to wait, to hope.

Take what life hands you and get on with it

How soon we cover up the horror of death and loss, if we can, with almost any sort of explanation, as if we had to justify the very fate which had maimed us.

Sometimes one has got to become monstrous in order to survive.

We've all got things to cry about. Don't you think I could drown the world with tears if I started on my own woes?

Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on. The fucked-upness always goes. The conventional wisdom is that you're running away, you should learn to cope with being fucked-up. I don't hold with that. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed. I'm being daft.

Nimeni nu poate sc?pa de suferin??, cel mai bun lucru pe care îl putem face e s? nu suferim orbeÈ™te.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

It is amazing to me that I continued writing. I can only explain it by my experience in later life. When I have felt depressed and unhappy, the only anodyne I had (since I have never smoked, drunk, or drugged) was to write.

el dolor es inevitable en el paso por esta vida, pero dicen que casi siempre es tolerable si no se le opone resistencia y no se agregan miedo y angustia.

Un dolor así, dolor del alma, no se quita con remedios, terapia o vacaciones; un dolor así se sufre, simplemente, a fondo, sin atenuantes, como debe ser

Since we're going to suffer, let's clench our teeth," she said. Pain like that, pain of the soul, does not go away with remedies, therapy, or vacations; you simply endure it deep down, fully, as you should. I would have done well to follow my Nini's example, instead of denying that I was suffering and stifling the howl that was stuck in my chest.

Caminando y caminando por el mundo se irá consolando de a poco y un día, cuando ya no pueda dar un paso más de fatiga, se dará cuenta de que no se puede escapar del dolor; hay que domesticarlo, para que no moleste.

We're out of our comfort zones with depression. I certainly was and whenever I have bad days now I speak to someone to get it off my chest.

You sometimes go back to your comfort zone when you're in a bad place, you try and be safe.

"Okay, I have arthritis, and this is the way arthritis is." Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.