Quotes About Coping

I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my life.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

I guess, the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life are deaths of people close to me.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you cope today if you will lay your human-size needs at his divine feet.

I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

When life is too much, roll with it, baby.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.