Quotes About Coping

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.

We thought back to previous research we'd been involved in with so-called difficult clients. One conclusion was that there really are no such things—all clients are really doing the best they can—just doing their jobs coping in the only way they know how.

Patients must be willing to give up their maladaptive coping styles in order to change. For example, patients who continue surrendering to the schema—by remaining in destructive relationships or by not setting limits in their personal or work lives -perpetuate the schema and are not able to make significant progress in therapy.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

We are not promised a pain-free life but are given the tools to survive: God and people. It is enough.

Life is severe and coping is harder for some than others. We can make the journey trickier or easier, smoothing the path with grace or complicating it with more obstacles. This person is here to stay for the foreseeable future or forever, so he is a necessary member of your tribe. You can exercise compassion without enabling misconduct.

A bereavement club. You don't choose to join it; it's thrust upon you. And the members whose lives have been changed have more knowledge than those who aren't in it, but the price of belonging is so terribly high.

There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Here's the thing: No matter where I go, sad things will happen to me, hard things. People I love will die, and sometimes I'll have to tell friends good-bye. I'll meet people who won't like me, and I'll know loneliness. I don't like it, but that's the way it is.

I quickly imagined that I could reach my hand into my chest, yank out that awful feeling, place it on an invisibl ecloud of air right in front of me, then push it away. Push it away

Laurel, I hope you find something like this, a little self-destructive habit you can turn to every once in a while, when you're tired of being good. It will keep you sane.

I'm taking it day by day." I liked saying this. It was honest, short, and seemed to satisfy people.