Quotes About Coping

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.

If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it.

He frowned. "Jedi aren't without emotion. We're allowed to grieve." "Perhaps," Ventress allowed, "but somehow I don't think most Jedi try to drown the pain with alcohol and slam their fists on the table.

He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he'd watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.

We used various things to cope with whatever ordeals we went through as children… Traumatized is just a word to describe those things, it isn't a judgment.

When she couldn't sleep and the nightmares were too close, she listened to them, sang the lyrics and let them carry the worst of her past away.

Grief does strange things to people.

Your woman knows how to deal with trauma?" Absinthe prompted. His woman walked on water.

She was known as QBSITDROH She rattled off the letters fast as if she'd used them often. [...] You'll have to teach your special name to sisters-in-law. They occasionally need a humorous way to cope. What does it stand for? Queen bitch spawned in the deepest recesses of hell.

Come on, Terry. Forgotten what it's like to be young and angry?" Terry shrugged. "I'm middle-aged and angry. With good Scotch, I can deal with the anger.

I don't know. I don't really have a plan. I don't even know if she's lucid. I've been on autopilot since I heard. I was waiting for you to get home so I could fall apart.

The hardest lesson in life is learning to accept that there are some things we can't change." Falconi paused, his eyes hard and glittering. "Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn't do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you'll never be able to fully recover.

Now wasn't the time to dwell on depressing thoughts. It wasn't Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but she couldn't help it.

Sometimes the universe decided to rip apart your life and stomp on the pieces, and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it except say, "Now what?

Sometimes the universe decided to rip apart your life and stomp on the pieces, and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it except say, Now what?

There is no time for grief; there never is.

Butch's thoughts didn't make his feelings of fear and terror disappear, but they did keep his emotions from hijacking his behavior.

ignoring your feelings does not make them go away; it just helps them to surface again when you least expect them.

if someone smiles at you it does not mean they're happy. It just means "I think that if I smile I might get out of this alive!" [ http://brickmag.com/interview-tsitsi-... ]

In life there are going to be some things that make it hard to smile. Through all the rain and pain you got to keep your sense of humor and smile for me now. Remember that.

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The two of them heartened each other, making bovine life a bit more tolerable.

It isn't easy to turn your back on the past. It isn't something you can decide to do just like that. It is something you have to arm yourself for, or grief will ambush and destroy you.