Quotes About Coping

Por vezes, quando um homem não consegue encontrar respostas seja para onde quer que se volte, acaba por descobrir algumas no fundo de uma garrafa

Bad things happen, Mathew. We can't see them coming, and there's often nothing we can do to prevent them. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't all live life to its fullest.

Suddenly it struck her as hysterically funny. She had been captured by savages and dragged halfway across Texas. Never once, not even when he had just cause, had Hunter hit her with enough force to hurt her, and never in the face. She'd had to come home to receive that kind of abuse. She sank onto the planked bench and started to laugh, a high-pitched, half-mad laughter. Aunt Rachel crossed herself, and that only made her laugh harder.

Anger is not a feeling; it's a defence. When you can't acknowledge your true feelings because they're too excruciating, you defend against them with anger.

Effective therapy is about lowering your defences so that you can deal with the issues that arise in your life.

Compulsions are behaviours a person engages in to get rid of the obsessions and reduce anxiety

obsessions: they're essentially defence mechanisms that protect patients from looking at what really terrifies them.

When you can't acknowledge your true feelings because they're too excruciating, you defend against them with anger.

It's the anticipation I can't handle. Loss lurks around every corner, and how do we prepare?

we all have them. The difference is how we handle our challenges. To have less stress in your life - deal with your challenges

We do crazy shit because we're broken.

You have no choice but to live through whatever's happening. I mean . . . as opposed to what? If you're going to continue to live, then you're going to deal with it. You have no choice. You can say, 'I'm going to fall apart now.

I can live through everything or I can answer for everything, but sometimes both is just too much for one day.

pretend that the world could not—would not—strike with no notice, offering up a loss that could take a person's breath away. Of course it can, she thought, and you know it better than just about anybody. We only pretend it can't, a minute or two at a time, to help us get up and out of the house in the morning.

This is what we do. We do crazy shit because we're broken. That's who we are. That's what we do.

I have sad. But that's not the same as problems. Problems are something you have to figure out a way to solve. You can't solve sad.

No, the really tough bit is when you find yourself dropped on the other side, and you have to find a way for your life to go forward from there.

decided the situation had thrust me back into a childhood mode—made me feel like a kid again—and in that feeling, there were no tools to climb out of the discomfort, just as there had been no tools when I was young. And

If it slices through walls and pulls stuff out of me, stuff that hurts, why am I sitting here listening to it? Why didn't I walk the other way?" "Because it's better to feel it." "Not if it hurts." "Especially if it hurts. Remember, it was in there to begin with. And as an old friend of mine used to say, better out than in.

used to think everybody got over everything. We always say we never will. But then we do. Because, really, what choice do we have?

can live through everything or I can answer for everything, but sometimes both is just too much for one day.

Still, everyone of us has something that makes him sad... And no one can save us from all of it.

But when I was inside, I was always OK. So I just started staying inside. Like I told you before, it gets to be an addiction.

He says the part that's driving us crazy is trying to fix a future that isn't even here yet. He says when it gets here, then we can figure out how to get through it. But now it's just driving us crazy because it's all unknown. So we just have to stay in the moment we're in. You know. Take things on one moment at a time.