Quotes About Coping

My life sucked, and it would catch up to me, and I'd just crack.

All the grief I had kept at bay for years by means of books and bookcases approached me now.

When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat.

it can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically.

Why shouldn't his death bring you into some total scandal of garment-rending grief? Why should you accommodate his death? Or surrender to it in thin-lipped tasteful bereavement? Why give him up if you can walk along the hall and find a way to place him within reach? Sink lower, she thought. Let it bring you down. Go where it takes you.

After a tragedy, I think God gives us a period of numbing as a kind of grace. Perhaps he knows our small minds, given so easily to false hope, couldn't handle the full brunt of reality.

Human beings collect physical, emotional, and social resources that help them survive in the world.

If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself.

You know how it is. After a time, something that's happened, even if it isn't very nice, if you just don't talk about it, it sort of goes away. Not that you forget about it, not really, but it isn't there any more.' Brunetti recognized the familiarity of this, and Vianello said, 'It's the only way life can go on, really, if you think about it.

When you're in pain, you need to think of something so that at least part of you can be free of the pain, so that your mind can go somewhere where there's no pain.

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

I could do what I had to. I'd done it before: gone blank, pushed forward.

Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair.

If you're stuck in hell, you might as well roast some marshmallows. Conversation,

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Furthermore, our initial perception of God is largely formed by our interaction with our parents and other early caregivers. As children, to be safe, we developed ways of coping with our imperfect parents. And due to these varied challenging experiences in our childhood, perhaps some of us may wonder how safe God really is.

Where all is fog, a blind man with a stick is not entirely at a disadvantage.

Sometimes your world falls apart. And it's okay for you to let people in and let them see you crumble

Failures can happen to anyone — it is how you deal with it that makes the difference.

When you look at the statistics of families dealing with special needs kids, the odds are that the added stress breaks you apart. For some reason, it made us a closer, more compassionate family. It made us a team.

she knew how to manage pain. She made herself cheerful. The worse things got, the more cheerful she became.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

She knew it happened, but now that it had happened and to people near her, she couldn't even absorb it enough to fear it thoroughly.

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.