Quotes About Coping

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.

If you can't help it, don't think about it.

Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.

Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it.

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide.

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.