Quotes About Coping

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.

I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.

Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit.

That's one thing about abuse or trauma—small things will trigger you, but in an actual crisis you often stay quite calm.

It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them.

On the surface she might put on a good show, making fun of herself and her manless state, but inwardly it was hard sometimes not to wonder: Why me?

You may be thinking, But life really has dealt me a bad hand. It's really not my fault that my life sucks. Just hold on a second. I'm not saying taking responsibility means controlling all the things life throws at you—none of us can do that. And there are times when we are victimized. Allowing yourself to accept that reality frees you to release any guilt or shame you might be carrying for tragedies and hardships that befell you in the past.

hoping some would-be robber or rapist or killer would find her and do her the favor of ending what she herself could not. But nothing bad had ever happened.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

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

when things are really bad the only thing to do is laugh

What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

Emotional flexibility reflects the capacity to move freely and appropriately along a wide spectrum of emotions rather than responding rigidly or defensively. Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from experiences of disappointment, frustration and even loss.

It's something that this country hasn't had to deal with. But there's going to be a whole new generation that doesn't know their father. It's almost selfish of us to die. They train us as warriors. But they don't teach us how to take the pain away.

Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.

what else is there to do but laugh and joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?