Quotes About Coping

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others." (Nightlife, Rob Thurman, 28)

In an attempt to cope with their childhood abandonment experiences, all Nice Guys developed the same paradigm: "If I am good, then I will be loved, get my needs met, and have a problem-free life." Unfortunately, this paradigm not only produces the opposite of what is desired, it guarantees nothing but feelings of perpetual powerlessness.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." Robert Heinlein STRANGER IN A STRANGELAND

always remember that when things look darkest, they usually get considerably worse

Transitions Needed • Learn to accept responsibility for your behaviors. • Learn appropriate ways to handle or release ager. • Learn how to communicate directly. • Learn alternative ways to handle stress.

Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping;

En kötü olas?l?klar için plan yapmak iyidir, ama onlar?n a??rl??? alt?nda ezilmemen gerek. Sabit fikir haline getirmemelisin. Bir kraliçe, her ÅŸeyden önce, umut sahibi olmal?d?r.

I remember when my aunt died, the thing that pissed me off the most was going to get groceries the next day and seeing all those people who didn't care... didn't understand why I was so upset when I saw her brand of cigarettes behind the counter.

Alguien te dirá que te acostumbres a esto. Ese sentimiento de estar asustado y triste. Te dirán que todo se pondrá mejor cuando aprendas a ignorarlo. No los escuches. Aférrate a él, recuérdalo... No dejes que lo olvides. Es muy fácil perder.

We love stress that is mild and transient and occurs in a benevolent context.

It takes surprisingly little in terms of uncontrollable unpleasantness to make humans give up and become helpless in a generalized way.

As Beck and other cognitive therapists have emphasized, much of what constitutes a depression is centered around responding to one awful thing and overgeneralizing from it—cognitively distorting how the world works.

Thus political orientation about social issues reflects sensitivity to visceral disgust and strategies for coping with such disgust.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

Adrina, it is time you mended your own soul. Cry, cry until there are no more tears in you.

Todo radica en cómo confrontamos las pérdidas, porque la gran diferencia en la vida de las personas tiene que ver con la manera en que cada quien lidia con el fracaso.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them

into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.