Quotes About Coping

If you are a child of divorce, I would encourage you to buy and read The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce. It will help you understand your feelings and begin to deal with anger and conflict in a healthier manner.

Nada era verdaderamente insoportable si se tenía algo que leer.

I have a lifelong habit for dealing with dejection: I leave town. I first ran away from home at three. Mother helped pack my bag.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

Cope or die.

You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.

It's not fair, but sometimes a kid has to act older than their age. You just pray hard to know what to do.

In life you have to laugh or you'll cry

She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn't fly away. All her time was taken up with managing herself, working out new ways to do things. Being a different person in the world.

After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman. Shazam! I suddenly felt I could open up and talk about the real stuff going on in my head. She lasted two session. I guess it was the castration fantasy that pushed over the edge.

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

It wasn't personal—more of a "been there, done that, got my lifetime supply of psychological trauma" kind of thing.

Life isn't fair," he whispered. "Sometimes, you just have to make the most of what you've got.

Ä°çindeki sönmüÅŸ yanarda??n yapt??? bask?y? hafifletmenin tek yolu kar??-ateÅŸler yakmak olmuÅŸtu art?k.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

Empty calories taste so good when you're down in the dumps.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.

Would it help if I said I was very drunk? Brachio shook his head. - We all were. -Shitty childhood? -Mummy used to leave me in a cupboard. -Shitty adulthood? -Whose isn't?

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself; the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

It is wrong to give way to grief.

Being loved back by the person he loved to the point where he couldn't cope anymore with the vulnerable reciprocity of giving and receiving, he ended the relationship to get it over with before he lost it

And I'd started thinking about my mother's last weeks--the way she'd drifted listlessly about the house in her dressing gown, cigarettes in one hand, glass of something strong-smelling in the other.