Quotes About Coping

Tuan volgen oketh ama. I said, using on eof my favorite Siaru idioms. It meant 'don't let it make you crazy' but it translated literally as: 'don't put a spoon in your eye over it.

These were bad memories, but over the years I had brought them out and handled them so often there was hardly a sharp edge left to them.

Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man he had known his whole life. These folk knew all about death. They killed their own livestock. They died from fevers, falls, or broken bones gone sour. Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

Quizá la mayor facultad que posee nuestra mente sea la capacidad de sobrellevar el dolor.

A veces, la realidad es solo dolor, y para huir de ese dolor, la mente tiene que abandonar la realidad.

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind." – Patrick Rothfuss.

There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow, it hides itself in insanity. There are times when reality is nothing but pain. And to escape that pain, the mind must leave reality behind.

Some small rational part of me realized I was in deep shock. It repeated the fact to me again and again. I did not want to think of what I saw. I did not want to know what had happened here. I did not want to know what any of this meant.

These were bad memories, but over the years I had brought them out and handled them so often there was hardly a sharp edge left to them. I

in the same way that winter was always cold. You complained, took sensible precautions, and got on with the business of living your life.

I'm told that we addictive-type personalities want to cover our pain, so we use food, spending, sex, drugs, sleeping, gambling, alcohol, work, people, blame, social activities, the Internet, etc., to distance and disguise what we don't know how to solve inside of us. The

Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.

Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

By that point, of course, the girl no longer misses the doll. He has given her something else instead, and by the time those three weeks are up, the letters have cured her of her unhappiness. She has the story, and when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

When a man feels he has come to the end of his rope, it is perfectly natural that he should want to scream.

Quinn no quería dejarse dominar por el pánico. En un esfuerzo por contenerse, trató de imaginar las cosas bajo la peor luz posible. Si veía lo peor, quizá no fuese tan malo como pensaba.

Angesichts der Schwierigkeiten, vor die uns die reale Welt stellte, war es wohl ganz verständlich, daß wir ihr so oft es ging den Rücken kehrten.

pain can relieve anxiety by distracting you from your consciousness.

When you are suffering, you have to force yourself to pay attention to your private conversation, that is, the words you say to yourself that no one else hears.

You are good at making sense of most life events in ways that enable you to move on.

On the folk religion level, the problem of death often has less to do with what happens to the person who has died than with the pain and meaninglessness that death brings for the living. How can the living deal with the devastation caused by the death of a loved one?