Quotes About Coping

from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

Reírse un poquito del dolor hace al dolor un poco más pequeño.

Humour is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

You know how I conceal my pain talk so much and laugh a lot"

Ne volim tugu, ?ini me zlim, zato se zavaravam bijesom.

I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop

The mind plays tricks on itself in order to stay in one piece.

I guess I feel like grief is this huge part of everything," I say in a burst. "But you're supposed to act like it's not.

So many people don't even know what hits them when they grow up. They feel clobbered over the head the minute the first thing goes wrong, and they spend the rest of their lives trying to avoid pain at all costs. But you all know that avoiding pain is impossible. And I think having that knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.

You're all equipped for the world, for adulthood, in a way that most people aren't," she continues. "So many people don't even know what hits them when they grow up. They feel clobbered over the head the minute the first thing goes wrong, and they spend the rest of their lives trying to avoid pain at all costs. But you all know that avoiding pain is impossible. And I think having that knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

Tears disturb and confuse men, but women know the relief they can bring. I didn't cry because I couldn't deal with my life, but because I could.

PERMALINK · 169465 · 15 HOURS AGO "She tried to feel sad, or guilty, or even to be angry about the way things had happened, but there frankly wasn't much room in either her head or her heart for wishing or moping.

Whatever task you're set, find some way to love it. Sunny wondered if Josiah's words applied to standing with a face of stone so the person in front of her wouldn't know how much she wanted to scream.

You know what people do when they have to face something uncomfortable? They blame the thing that makes them feel bad, even if it's not that thing's fault.

I got it together, of course. I always did. I pushed away what shamed me and made me unhappy, and I smoothed out the rest to make a pretty, perfect surface. It was getting harder and harder to do.

That sometimes you don't get over something. You just get through it.

Shit happens and its awful but its okay. We deal with it because we havet to.

I do believe the shotguns helped them accept this reality sooner than they might have otherwise.

Oh, Christ. That's exactly the type of thing that warrants a journal burning.

Alphonse Daudet observes in In the Land of Pain. "Everyone will get used to it except me.