Quotes About Coping

When everything hurts too much, you want to get away from it but you can't, because it's inside you. So you do something drastic because you know it will change everything.

know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

Cuanto mayor sea el grado de estrés, más temerosos, inseguros e inciertos nos sentimos y más irracional tiende a ser nuestro comportamiento.

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

It's not what happens to you but how you deal with it.

Be serene. It is not what happens to you, it is how you deal with it.

it wasn't what happened to you, it was how you dealt with it.

And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole.

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

Dark humor might have offended some on the other side of the blue line, but it was how cops coped with very grim realities.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

There were no rules to grief, but there were rules to life, and in those first few days, the requirements of the living demanded I keep going.

You can live through most anything as long as you have the right tranquilizers on hand.

Back when we were kids, the experts thought kids were protected if they couldn't access their most damaging memories. But now they know suppressed memories can cause all kinds of problems as an adult- anxiety, depression, PTSD, amnesia...

Nee!' Laura schreeuwde bijna. 'Ik snij mijzelf nooit meer!

a toddler's experience of grief is complicated by the way in which he thinks. Left unacknowledged and unattended, grief can block development and attachment to the adoptive family.

T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and crazy enough to hide behind.

The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed." "Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it.

Liquor for men and tears for women," he would say. "What would we do without them?

O time! thou must untangle this, not I; It is too hard a knot for me to untie. —Shakespeare, Twelfth Night People require different amounts of time for grieving.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.