Quotes About Coping

But when you're already swimming in a sea of humiliation deep enough to drown you, it doesn't matter much if somebody throws in another bucketful. It's not worth it to stop and pay attention to that when you need to keep paddling.

See now why I hate to go outside so much?" "Yeah. I guess I do. But you gotta do it anyway, right? I mean, it's life. You gotta do life. Right?" "Not really," Billy said. "You don't have to. Lots of people don't do life any more. They just stop at some point. And once you stop, it's really hard to get started again. But then, once you get started again, it's kind of hard to stop.

until my brain was overloaded. I felt like I was blowing fuses in my head.

Really? Are you sure?" "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.

You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.

Breaking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.

She wasn't angry. You can't get angry just because the world's so much bigger than you and you're stuck in it.

Humans are remarkably adaptable, and in some ways we adapt better to the worst-case scenario than to the idea that anything can be better. There is a full cup of fatalism in the recipe for Homo sapiens sapiens , and some of us are very much more comfortable with the world ending than it going on.

You will live as you live in any world,' Madame Lebedeva said. She reached out her hand as if to grasp Marya's, as if to press it to her cheek, then closed her fingers, as if Marya's hand were in hers. 'With difficulty, and grief.

A sorrow is a resourceful beast.

All through the day, whenever the sadness comes, I pinch my arm to make the sadness go there. That takes it out of my heart. When I go to bed that night, I see a bruise on my arm.

There are many different types of illness and people get sick for different reasons. Sometimes it's easy to see what is wrong with the person; they may have a rash or a bad cough. But other times it's because of how they feel inside and the things they say and do, or can't do.

I wish you'd read your poems," she said sternly. "We need poems to heal." "I'm not ready to heal," I said as gently as I could because I was afraid how she'd respond. She nodded. "I respect that," she said, and walked away.

Your only defense is to be hard on yourself, which becomes compulsive, and therefore a comfort, to peck yourself to death.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

My therapist has helped me learn to understand that if you don't unpack your own emotional baggage it's no longer baggage--it's deadweight.

sometimes holding on to anger is important to people and is what keeps them going.

If you believe that life is scary, untrustworthy, cruel, harsh, and unfair, instead of feeling angry and aggressive, you may feel defeated, powerless, and afraid to face life. Many who find themselves in the grip of addictions feel just this way.

What did Duncan have with which to organize pointless, brutal life?

You have a good cry, lovey, you'll feel better afterwards. You did feel better afterwards, but as if you'd conned yourself, fobbed yourself off.