Quotes About Coping

Keep your issues in your tissue box, and learn how to keep them out of your status box.

I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.

Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible.

Life is unpredictable, so don't expect much from it.

I had no idea that the simple act of running a sharp blade across my wrist would change everything so completely. I wasn't after happiness anymore. I just wanted to survive.

For the first time in months, I felt together. Sharp. In hurting myself, I had at last found a way to release the pressure. But it was more than that. I was now different. I felt different. I'd discovered a way to control my feelings. Just because self-mutilation wasn't deemed an acceptable coping mechanism didn't mean I was going to stop doing it

Relief was what I was looking for that day, and I didn't care how I got it. What I wanted - what I needed - was a pain that I could see and deal with. I couldn't cope with the mess inside of me any longer, and cutting myself seemed to be the best solution. I knew that it would work. What I didn't know was that I was about t engage in a behavior that was not just dangerous but highly, highly addictive.

Some days, it was enough just to know that I had a packet of blades in the house. They were a cold, very sharp, security blanket.

Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry." But for girls, the surest and safest way to avoid being picked on or terrorized is to get the bully to like you.

Anger is the first step toward emotional healing.

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

In short, I was in a familiar place, the place of feeling unfamiliar, which I responded to in my usual fashion by arming myself with a gin and tonic, my first of the evening. I

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope,

Resentment was an antidote to gloominess, as it was for sadness, melancholy, despair, etc.

You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.' 'What tragedy?' asked Mrs. Chatterji. 'Well, when she was four,' said Amit, 'her mother slapped her--it was quite traumatic--and then things went on in that vein. When she was twelve she came in second in an exam...It hardens you.

Wat is het moeilijk om het gewone leven weer op te pakken en niet totaal ontmoedigd te raken door de onafwendbaarheid van de ellende

When you're bereaved you're so all over the place that you might find a book heart-warming on a Tuesday and mindless nonsense on a Wednesday.

Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.

Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with that is what makes the difference.

Life is not what it's supposed to be.It's what it is.The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Grandma laughed dryly. "I think we old people sometimes forget that childhood isn't all fun and games. You're coping with a lot of things right now. But hurting other people because inside you're hurting yourself is no solution to anything. I don't think you are a bad person at heart, Grant. But if you feel that impulse again you can't act on it. It doesn't matter how righteous you are if you let yourself do awful things.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.