Quotes About Coping

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

The cure for everything is salt water: tears, sweat, or the sea.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

But she's not even remotely coping inside: it takes a certain strength to cry, the confidence that one will eventually be able to staunch the tears.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death . . . is the true measure of the Divine within us.

Sometimes, my friend, we are forced into situations we don't like, that make us uncomfortable, that we think we haven't a chance in hell of coping with. But people cope, Frank. They cope all the time.

if we are able to describe the situation, what we want, what is happening, and legitimize the emotional process even when we do not like it, typically our emotional arousal will start the return toward a lower state of emotional upset and eventually back to normal emotional arousal

IF YOU HURT INSIDE, GET CERTIFIED, AND IF LIFE SHOULD TREAT YOU BAD... DON'T GET EE-EE-EVEN, GET MAD!

You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?

I've been dog rough, half blind and barking mad for years but you don't catch me going on about it.

S]orrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich ... Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.

The secret to surviving heartbreak is finding more pressing drama.

You could block things from your mind for years at a time. You could make them go away because you know that if you let them in, the pain could nearly kill you.

I guess when the world's crumbling around you the only way to survive is to comfort yourself," he said.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

You have to accept the fact that we don't always get what we want. Sometimes life kicks you when you're down." "So when that happens, what do you do?" "Well…I suppose I'd cry for a while. Ain't nothin' wrong with a good cry. Then I suppose I'd pick myself up and get on with my life, 'cause if I didn't, then whoever or whatever got me down would have won.

They stared at me, at Isaac, and then at the floor rather than at each other, as if they had long since come to terms with the fact that on any given evening men could burst into their house and do something terrible to them. There's no honest measure for the toll that sort of knowledge takes, whether the scale is the breadth of a single room or an entire city.

Do you know about Irish Alzheimer's?" Malone asks. "No." "You forget everything but the grudges

I drank whiskey because I was depressed, and whiskey made sure I stayed depressed.

Every time I write, say, or think "lung cancer," I pick up a Pall Mall to calm myself.