Quotes About Coping

Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.

I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.

People are going to go out and do things after games and celebrate and do that kind of stuff. Everybody cannot be everywhere, and nobody can prevent crazy things from happening. Stuff is going to happen, and you've just got to deal with it.

I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo... imagining I was a different person living in a different place was one of the few ways... that I could escape the oppressive environment I was raised in.

I have all bad days. I think I need help. I got an anger problem.

I used to find comfort in food, but can't do that anymore, because of the profession I am in.

Everyone deals with pressure in different ways.

Everybody handles things differently.

Everybody handles pressure differently.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

It's such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we're not coping, because we're supposed to be all right with all the different roles we're born with and are piled on us later on.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

In life, when what has happened happens to you, you don't digest it.

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head.

I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.

You've got to laugh in the face of disappointment.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.