Quotes About Coping

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

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Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.