Quotes About Coping

Listen, kid, you shouldn't work so bloody hard. Sometimes it's a goos idea just to let go and scream a bit." Let go she thought. What happens if you find out you keep on falling?

Rebecka laughs through her tears. There is almost too much laughter. It bubbles over because she has cried so much she has created an empty space, ready to be filled with another feeling.

I don't know what to say.' 'That's okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.' 'Like when you're scared?' 'Exactly.' 'Or when you're sad?' 'That too. A voice can be reassuring.

Classical psychoanalysis regards conscious thoughts as a disguised representation of unconscious conflicts that are presumably causing the problem. The patient's own explanations are regarded as spurious rationalizations, his coping mechanisms as defenses. Consequently, his conscious ideas, his reasoning and judgements, his practical solutions to problems are not taken at face value: they are treated as stepping-stones to deeper, concealed components of the mind.

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

With each passing day, I allowed myself to become a little more intoxicated by limitless possibilities which seemed sometimes to roll in with the fog, murmur suggestions that would have made me run yelling from them had I been anywhere [other than San Francisco], then leave me to cope with that special brand of terror bestowed by sweet and sour tastes of freedom.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed—she had reached that point.

I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.

I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course.

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

Wow," says Peter, "when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Not till the bad feelings come out can the good ones come in.

And yet, it's our listening that can give the greatest comfort. It's our acceptance of their unhappy feelings that can make it easier for our kids to cope with them.

But let someone really listen, let someone acknowledge my inner pain and give me a chance to talk more about what's troubling me, and I begin to feel less upset, less confused, more able to cope with my feelings and my problem.

That's all beliefs are; stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid. Beliefs have very little to do with the truth.

You can't get past pain without going through it,

I remember that in the past I was overwhelmed with the mystery of anxiety, or the mystery of depression, but now when you feel that feeling coming on you no longer go into fight-or-flight mode. You go: 'Oh, I know what this is' and you ride it out.

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

A lot of first-time mothers worry about how they will cope. But I'm more patient than I thought I would be even though there are good days and bad days.

We had to cope with the media writing things which were not true, which were insulting. At around 13 I decided I was just not going to pay attention.