Quotes About Coping

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

With no one there to help modulate your feelings, you did a very smart thing as that little boy. You shut them down. Closed a door on them.

But most of us do not reenact the experience of the trauma itself. Instead, we act out the coping strategy that we evolved to deal with it.

His father died before his time. "You're a man now," the village people told him. "If being broken-hearted is a man," he replied from his despair, "then, yes, I suppose I'm a man."

The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy.

Clouds open up into rain, You too should release your pain.

To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist.

Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.

I try not to spend too much time worrying about how "hard" my life is. Of course, it's kind of difficult not to think about it at least part of the time. What else is there for me to do? For the most part, though, I just live and try not to bitch to myself too much about the bad-news stuff of my life. Bitching doesn't change anything.

Do not hold this pain of what has happened to you close to your heart, Isabelle. You must let it go. No matter matter how painful. It will ruin you. If you keep silent, if you swallow it, it will eat you liked cancer.

Grief is a normal healthy response to loss

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances.

I've found Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (Collins) and The Feeling Good Handbook (Plume) to be extremely helpful and highly regarded books in the area of managing stress in productive ways. Many

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.

If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.