Quotes About Coping

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea.

We don't drink to forget. We drink to remember.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Sometimes life sucks . . . get use to it.

She wasn't meant for these scenes, wasn't meant to be sitting up there in the Southwest Community Infirmary with her ass out, in the middle of the day, and strangers cluttering up the treatment room, ogling her in her misery. She wasn't meant for any of it. But then M'Dear Sophie always said, "Find meaning where you're put, Vee." So she exhaled deeply and tried to relax and stick it out and pay attention.

Even if she had realized that she had a problem, she would not have cared. All she knew was that with each sip she took, the better she felt: her fear receded, her misery disappeared and her confidence grew.

Let's get you back to the kitchen and put some butter on those wounds.

Dont feel too bad, Harry. People break-up everyday, its not the end of the world..

Se la veía debatirse entre su deseo de dominar la congoja y la imposibilidad de evitarla. La dejó llorar. El llanto es una descarga de la emotividad. Cuando ésta llega a un punto grave de concentración es preciso abrir compuertas al alma. Y el llanto, a veces, es su mejor cauce.

I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay.

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.

In my opinion, one should always make the most out of an awful situation

Well, things can't get much worse -- that's one consolation," the Muskrat groaned. He had hidden himself in a forest of bracken in the bathroom, and had wrapped his head in a handkerchief so that nothing should grow into his ears.

Minähän koen joka päivä maailmanlopun ja kuitenkin pukeudun ja riisuudun ja syön ja pesen astioita ja pidän teekutsuja aivan kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut!

I've made it this far without crying a single tear and I'd sure hate to break down here.

A person had to keep herself in one piece when everything around her was falling apart.

There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.

For so long, she'd taken her memories of Patty - the memories they'd created together - and held them outside of herself, protecting herself from the pain of carrying them deep within. It was as if she carried all the memories in her jars. But if doing so, it was as if she'd also kept everyone else - those still in her life - at arm's length too.

Surviving abuse, as a child or an adult, often means that you have to play by your abuser's rules—rules that set you up to behave like a fearful, passive person long after you have escaped the abuse.

The abuse wasn't about you—it was about your abuser. Your abuser is the one with the problem, not you.