Quotes About Coping

Life is not cured. Life is managed.

It's all you have when you realize you are not entirely in control of outcomes. But without it, how else do we cope with the challenges of life?

I mean, I'm as fucked up and miserable as the next person, but I don't let it get me down. You know?

To survive painful beliefs and feelings, we often mask them with anger. That way, we don't have to feel the shame behind it.

Childhood trauma may sneak up from behind and fuck you in the ass when you grow up, but at least it leaves a tip on the nightstand.

Do you know how you get over it?" Rasputin looked at his interlocutor like a wrestler about to break a folding chair in half. "You don't shower or shave for a month, until you smell like a sewer. Then you walk around for two weeks wearing a dress and a goalie mask with a dildo strapped to the front. That's what I did. And I will never be afraid of public humiliation again." "You

But, you know, shit happens even when you have a shit shield with you.

Every veteran since the first war got fucked big-time. Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself. There's no war long enough or bad enough to mess up your head as bad as you messed it up yourself.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd(Julie) always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.

Do you ever get scared? Yeah. Sometimes. It's not like you're walking around terrified all the time, even when things are going to hell around you. It's just you're....reacting, trying to stay alive. Things are happening so fast that you don't have time to think much of anything except doing your job and trying not to die. It usally affects you afterward, once you're clear. That's when you realize how close you came and sometimes you get the shakes or puke or whatever.

I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

After something like that . . . well, even though you try to get through it—and might seem fine on the surface—underneath you're a wreck, and you don't even know it. And sometimes, it takes a while to figure out that you're still struggling with everything that happened.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

When you lose your job and it is about football, I can quickly put things in order and move on.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

My mother had multiple sclerosis.

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

Music in general, but really musical theater has always been a real coping mechanism for me.

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

I have changed drastically because I allow myself to not just grieve and feel down.

It was tough, so hard; it really was horrible when I was growing up. I was called so many names, all sorts.

It's obviously important for the English national team if you have a lot of players playing big matches. You are more mature and know how to cope.