Quotes About Coping

it wasn't so much the war as what we took into the war. Whatever cracks were already there the war forced apart, and what we might otherwise have kept inside came spilling out.

But I'd come to a time when I couldn't deal with these broken things anymore. There were too many of them. I couldn't fix them. I didn't have the strength. I couldn't hold them in my mind. I didn't even want to know about them.

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Charlotte, having seen his bodyBorne before her on a shutter,Like a well-conducted person,Went on cutting bread and butter.

I can stand you all being a lot worse now, because I can always go there. It's when I haven't got anywhere to go that I get mad straight away. But if I go there for half an hour it's beautiful to come back.

She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.

Culturally we are taught to disregard our gut instinct. But it is a crucial element of our ability to face and cope with traumatic situations.

His moral task was to suffer well, to be worthy of his sufferings. He could not control how much he suffered, but he could control his inner response to his sufferings.

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

On s'habitue plus facilement que prévue à ce qui paraît insoutenable.

Acostumbramos con mayor facilidad de lo previsto a lo que parece insoportable

Elle savait mieux que personne qu'on pouvait enfouir au fond de soi la barbarie.

Ultimately, attachments are ways of coping with the feelings of vulnerability, shame and inadequacy that lie at the core of our false ways of being. Like Adam and Eve, our first response to our awareness of nakedness is to grab whatever is closest and quickly cover our nakedness. We hide behind the fig leaves of our false self.

What was Audrey to do then but make peace with her reality. Or try.

And this book was an attempt to be with these feelings, also to find a place that will allow both to remember all the time without dying of it and to forget without killing.

Ripeto la parola "dolore" come fa Yochai con le parole che non capisce. Hai detto che in questo modo cerca di tenere lontano le cose che non conosce. Dolore dolore dolore.

All the annoying stuff people spout about your loved ones being in a better place, or not being in pain is just words they say to make themselves feel better.

My own view of the relationship between drugs and PTSD is reminiscent of what Frank Sinatra said when a reporter asked him about his philosophy of life—"Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night—be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

Healing doesn't mean the loss didn't happen. It means that it no longer controls us.

People often say, "I don't know how you're doing it." I tell them that I'm not. I'm not deciding to wake up in the morning. I just do. Then I put one foot in front of the other because there's nothing else to do. Whether I like it or not, my life is continuing, and I have decided to be part of it.

You have to cry your own tears because no one can do it for you.