Quotes About Coping

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

Nothing will ever be okay again, not in the same way, but I'm getting used to it.

and I laugh like nothing every happened. I feel normal again, whatever that is.

and I laugh like nothing ever happened. I feel normal again, whatever that is.

But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?

That's life. Things don't always work out.

When something that terrible, that horrible happens to you, you don't want to talk about it with anyone. You want to bury it deep inside you and let it rest in peace. You want to forget it ever happened.

I think that if I just delete him enough it will be like none of it ever happened, and my heart won't hurt so badly.

Then she'll drink. Sometimes it's like there's this well of sadness inside her, and she has to drink to fill it up. And then sometimes it's like there's a monster inside of her, and drinking's the only thing that will calm it down. And sometimes she drinks just because.

Sometimes he knew it was best to believe the stories you told yourself in order to get through a day. After all, didn't the cornerstone of sober living preach getting through life one day at a time?

It is important to remember that emotional pain comes in waves. Remind yourself that there will be a pause in between waves.

The best thing with crazy people, Grandma Win used to say – the only thing, really – is to be somewhere else.

Instead I saw a fresh colostomy bag hanging from the side of his belly, "SHIT HAPPENS" written on the plastic in black felt-tip.

I've come to believe that it's the stronger man who expresses his emotions rather than swallowing them and allowing them to fester.

It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.

The trick of life," she said, "is that you can't hold the pain for too long. The magic, either.

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.