Quotes About Coping

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time.

Every day, good stuff and bad stuff happens to us. It's what you do about it and how you handle it that matters.

you do about it and how you handle it that matters. You just can't let it break you. You have to keep fighting. And guilt and regrets never get us anywhere.

Navigating the shoals of grief had become familiar to her. She knew from losing Arthur that losing someone was a process, you didn't let go all at once, you let go inch by inch, or millimeter by millimeter. It had taken her a year after Arthur to feel human again.

It's only a tragedy if we treat it that way," Jessie said firmly.

It's just when we need it most that we don't reach out for help.

to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression.

between the raindrops - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster.

The world might be going up in flames, but we have to carry on as normal

People have an amazing ability to cope with the madness of life. It's called denial. It'll take you a good mile, but only if life's horrors stay on the page of the newspaper where they belong.

FATHER: What's the matter, Son? SON (bursting into tears): Oh Dad, I struck out and lost the big game. (Sobs.) FATHER (putting his arm around the boy's shoulders): Hey! Forget it! Let's have a nice cold can of Bite the Wax Tadpole! SON: And then I murdered a policeman.

Why do you want to share your suffering?' By sharing I will dilute it.

aside emotionally, that is . . . which was where trusting God came in, she supposed.

What happened to you as a child, particularly something bad, changed you, absolutely and completely. It was like part of your brain became closed off and refused to mature any further. As an adult you were powerless to fight against it. It was simply who you were until the day you died. There was no "therapy" that could cure it. That wall was built and nothing could tear it down.

We've all lost somebody close, Tyler. It's how we deal with it that counts, because if you mess that up nothing else really matters.

For example, if you feel sad or depressed, you're probably telling yourself that you've lost someone you love or something important to your sense of self-esteem. If you feel guilty or ashamed, you're telling yourself that you're bad or that you've violated your own personal values. If

It did not eliminate the tumor, but it did restore her missing self-esteem, and that made all the difference in the way she felt.

Now practice going through this version of the scenario each night until you have mastered it and can fantasize handling the situation effectively and calmly in this manner. This cognitive rehearsal will enable you to program yourself to respond in a more assertive and relaxed way when the actual situation confronts you again.

I asked her to imagine that we had a magic button and that if she pushed it, all of her negative thoughts and feelings would instantly disappear, with no effort at all, and she'd immediately feel joyous, even euphoric. Would she push the button?