Quotes About Coping

It's okay to fall apart, Gavin.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand as well.

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.

I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

There are many different types of bullying, being called fat and all that stuff, it bothers you. You have to deal with it.

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

Ugly Betty' has definitely helped me cope with issues I would have never been able to cope with if I wasn't a part of a show that has such unique characters.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.

In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

In fact, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been directly responsible for my own joy in some times of terrible sadness.

And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling