Quotes About Coping

I get so scared, I can't stop it. It's like black waves, and I'm a little cork. I bob to the surface and think I'll do okay, and then another wave comes and I'm drowning again." I

Nobody knows what to do when there's a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.

She didn't want to be miserable; no one wanted to be miserable. There were times when you just couldn't help it.

I think hard times is harder on a man, 'cause a woman will do something. Women just seem to know where they can save or where they can help, more than a man. It's just a worry for him, and he feels so terrible when he can't take care of his family.

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Someone once told me that the only good advice for grief is to stay hydrated. Because everything else is just chingaderas.

ONE OF LIFE'S great blessings is that death and tragedy are never allowed to take full possession. Life goes on. People say it bitterly, as if one ought to be occupied solely with the current disaster. In fact we couldn't cope if, in the midst of crisis, people didn't eat and drink and relax a bit and comfort one another.

And I don't think anybody ever gets over loss. I think you get through it. You let it get through you.

Laughter helps us view frustrations and disappointments from new perspectives; it enables us to survive hard times, setbacks, and frustrations.

The key to coping with questionable emotions is knowing that we are in control of them, and not the other way around.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors we faced were mainly physical, like running away from wild animals. Now they are almost entirely psychological. When was the last time you were frightened by a lion? The things that cause us stress in our modern world are the ones that go inside our heads.

What makes you think I'm coping?" "Well, for one thing, you're not lying on the floor in the fetal position. That's a good start.

Sometimes to deal with your problems you have to let off a little steam.

After all I'd been through, I didn't need to be wiping other people's eyeballs off my cheek.

I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life.

Depressed, I went for a long walk to figure out what to do about my healthy mental state. Didn't electroshock therapy mess up your mind if you were sane when they zapped you? I thought I'd read something about that somewhere, but I also didn't have access to an electroshock therapy device. The best I could do was stick my finger in a light bulb socket. That didn't seem like the answer. What did insane people do? Well,

I was sane, I would always be sane, and I was just going to have to deal with it. Sometimes life sucks. *

Every day's a sunshiny day when you don't have maggots and spiders eating your guts.

I think you're confusing suicide with self-destruction, and they're very different. Almost none of us commit suicide, whereas almost all of us self-destruct. Somehow. In some part of our lives. We drink, or take drugs, or destabilize the happy job

But minds find ways to protect themselves, build fortifications, and some of those walls become traps.

It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said.

Feeling angry is natural; you have a right to feel angry. Expressing this anger is the most important lesson to be learned. How do you get rid of all the poisonous, furious feelings you have without hurting yourself or others?