Quotes About Coping

Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.

These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by.

I didn't create this world," she said to herself. "I only have to live in it.

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. —Beverly Sills

No one can truly know the answer to the question, What will you do when you lose the person you love?

Quella perdita della libertà nello spazio fisico, aveva trovato il modo di compensarla, sostituendovi spazi di pensiero nuovi. Ciascuno se la cava come può, ammesso che ci riesca.

My habit when I've been humiliated is to go out and buy a book.

How we understand our problems has an effect on how we cope.

El tema, escribió él, es el dolor. Cuánto acumulo, cuánto esquivo.

Shit happens. It is what it is. Whatta ya gonna do.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People and his lectures.

Giving the emotion a name is the way we come to understand how what happened affected us. After we've told the facts of what happened, we must face our feelings. We are each hurt in our own unique ways, and when we give voice to this pain, we begin to heal it.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Healing does not mean reversing. Healing does not mean that what happened will never again cause us to hurt. It does not mean we will never miss those who have been lost to us or that which was taken from us. Healing means that our dignity is restored and we are able to move forward in our lives.

Thought of blowing your brains out? William blinked, startled. No. That's good. Anything else is bound to be an improvement, isn't it?

Who needed the relief of occasional bad language more than a mother of small children? Maybe

Shell shock, they said in the First World War. Battle fatigue, in the Second. It's what happens when you live through things you shouldn't have been able to live through and can't reconcile that knowledge with the fact that you did.

I was at once exhausted and jittery, with that horrible battlefield feeling, of being in the midst of events beyond my ability to control, but which must be dealt with anyway.

wasn't crying. Grief and shock simply overflowed; I could not contain them.

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I drink to forget I drink.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.