Quotes About Coping

I started running to escape the memories that drinking couldn't cover up

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

Here is what happens when your mother worries: You become secretly worried. Anxiety plays in your background like bad grocery store music. You pace and count stuff and wake at night, your heart beating too fast. You pretend to be brave, and do stuff to prove you're not a scared person like she is.

I'm fine." Oh, how we love and overuse fine, our all-purpose little evasion. Fine means not fine. Fine means Pity me. Fine means Don't ask.

It's okay. She can handle being a disappointment. She can handle a lot of things.

The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.

The difference between failure and survival is that coping skill you used in between the struggles.

The pain of running relieves the pain of living.

Stop. Stop trying to make the illusion of strength. You don't need it. Not here. Not now. Let yourself be sad until the real strength returns.

Maybe some type of pain is inevitable, but still, that doesn't mean that you should always let it control your emotions.

May your turn your pain into prayer.

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it.

The best way to live a stress-free life is to learn how to swim in the ocean of uncertainty.

I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.

I've always learned how to deal with my problems through my words, through my education, and through my intelligence, which I think is important and the best way to deal with an issue.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

I run to get out, when I have been stuck inside, reading to escape from life, not even able to sit up straight in my tiny bunk. I run to feel like I am doing something, when I am overwhelmed by all the things I can't do anything about.

shook. I was used to getting a bad night's sleep, not to getting no sleep. I sat, ate, tried to hold myself together.

Elle se servait beaucoup de sa larme pour amollir son mal.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.