Quotes About Coping

Some children benefit from an extra hour of sleep when they are going through regressions. Often they need more rest time to help them to cope better. After finding that an earlier bedtime works over a few cycles, children will often volunteer that they need an earlier bedtime when they are going through hard times.

I didn't create this world," she said to herself. "I only have to live in it.

The measure of our success is how we cope with disappointment.

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.

You had to laugh, if you wanted to survive.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Disease and distress need to be healed. Yet over a lifetime, the key to well-being is a person's coping skills. With poor coping skills, you become prey to every accident, setback, or disaster. with strong coping skills, you become resilient in the face of misfortune, and resilience has been shown repeatedly to be present in people who survive to great old age with a sense of fulfillment.

Laughter is humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

Self-pity can breed self-destruction.

Life on the Reservation, he observed, was "particularly hard on those who lack a sense of humor.

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

Becoming aware of the customs and contradictions of the dominant group is a coping mechanism that maximizes survival.

We all go through tough times." "My parents are trying to kill me." "We all have issues.

She'd had a lot of practice at closing off the part of herself that felt sad about things like this.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.