Quotes About Coping

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.

For humans, being able to 'forget' is what allows them to survive through their cruel and harsh lives.

On the plains and prairies either you learn to shrug off the unpredictability of life or else its dangers become too overwhelming.

many people prefer the comfort of fantasy to the harshness of reality. They seem to reason this way: 'How can I arrange my beliefs so I'll feel most comfortable?' rather than arranging them to agree with reality.

De psychiaters en, op hun manier, ook de biechtvaders hebben gelijk. Zorgen of angsten, die men uitpraat, relativeren zich tot wat binnen de grenzen valt van wat ons weerstandsvermogen zonder evenwichtsverstoring verdragen kan.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

When books sweep the world with characters and plots that seem unutterably grim...you have to ask whether we willingly incorperate such material into our lives because we need more shadows, clouds, drama, or perhaps because vicarious exposure to such material equips us, psychologically, for potential exposure to the real thing. [p35, Chapter 1 Taking the rough with the smooth]

How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

They say, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

Scotsman's way of dealing with death. He'd found

began lecturing there as well. Kairos was crucial in helping me cope with the grief and loss within my family—once again, helping me see the ripple effects of my bad decisions.

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.

Every man can break, after certain time period. It's only necessary to find the levers that move his soul

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

I glanced at the posture. "Look, I know you think you've got the original franchise on grief, but there's a lot of it flying around these days and most of us just suck it up and do what we can to help each other, you know?

She'd almost done therapy once before. But it was pretty clear after some research that she just had some post-traumatic stress and generalized anxiety, so it seemed easier to just skip the whole thing and rely on the online tips and tricks she found

That was a coping mechanism that psychopaths often used. They didn't feel the way normal individuals did, so they just mimicked the behavior. They acted as if they got angry, as if they were hurt, as if they loved. But it was all just acting.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

We leerden, dat weet jij best, heel veel. Hoe een voor een die dingen werden weggenomen die niet weggenomen mogen worden, mensen, streken, terwijl het hart niet sterft al denk je dat het nu zou moeten sterven, we glimlachen, op tafel thee en brood.

everybody had to find their own way of bearing things