Quotes About Coping

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.

What an incredible drug fear is.

The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.

Humor acts to relieve fear.

Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.

We're all broken in one way or another, some just hold the pieces together better.

We have no control over the situations of life and we can't even run from them, the best we can do is to acknowledge it and embrace it in order to move through it.

Any fool can be happy when times are good. It takes a strong soul with real heart to develop smiles out of situations that make us weep.

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. Stay happy.