Quotes About Coping

This sent me into an inappropriate laughing fit. I wasn't allowed to get angry, and I couldn't cry, so I laughed - a lot. (114)

Just as Sarah Keeler had taught me that children die, Wendy taught me that you don't have to wade through the insanity; you can get off the bus. This scared me so much that a sweaty panic swept over me. From that moment on I knew it was possible to end my own life. (157)

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

Laugh at yourself, about your problems, fears, vices, shortcomings, failures, etc., make fun of everything connected with you, feel the evil comedy of reality. Laugh at yourself so you don't go crazy.

You must become mentally or emotionally fit if you want to survive.

Es imposible dominar todos los temores y las pérdidas con antelación. Siempre hay fuentes de desolación que no se toman en consideración porque nadie sabe cuáles serán.

Do you need tissues for your issues'? I have no idea where she picked it up from, but if only we could fix all our wounds with tissues.

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today,

So often, life isn't what we expect—or want—it to be. I know this isn't the most profound statement, but it's true—shit happens . . . and we just either have to soldier on . . . or not.

I never learned how to process my own pain.

I had been conditioned to down play my own abuse,

To forgive without expressing anger or disappointment is to forgive from a position of weakness. •?Forgiving from weakness only invites more hurt. It never quite catches up with the pain.

The only way for me to survive with some dignity and recapture a corner of my sanity was to shut down the compartment that contained the painful memories, the insults, and the lies.

There are no miraculous responses that will make intense feelings of fear, rage, sadness, and jealousy just disappear in a cloud of smoke.

It hurts my heart, too, sweetie, but you know what? Sometimes crying is a kind of cure. Sometimes that's what the body and the heart need to do. It's hard to watch, but it's not always a bad thing.

Jews put black over mirrors during times os mourning so they wouldn't think about themselves. But I never did look in mirrors anyway, because I disliked myself. No, wait. I disliked my appearance.

When hope is lost, the mind protects us with denial, and my denial protected me from facing what I knew.

Radical acceptance is to know that painful things are still going to happen, but how we respond makes a difference. We don't have to condone our current reality, but we have to accept it for what it is instead of staying stuck, wishing it were different.

There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.

This is the deck of cards you've been dealt. Now you have to deal with it.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

he's stuck with them, so he makes the best of a bad situation. he's a hero because he makes something good out of a life he doesn't want.

For a whole day I couldn't remember that Dad was dead. It was as if accepting his death would kill me, too. I lost my mind; I can admit it. If you don't go at least a little crazy when your favorite person dies, something is wrong with you.