Coping Quotes

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.

I've always used humor, but I use humor when coping with things in general.

I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too.

Routine is part of coping.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

Give me loveGive me loveGive me peace on earthGive me lightGive me lifeKeep me free from birthGive me hopeHelp me cope, with this heavy loadTrying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul

You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.

The heart carries heavy loads when it is being trained to carry weighty blessings.

You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained.

You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

The difference between failure and survival is that coping skill you used in between the struggles.

I don't forgive him, " I said."Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours?

He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice.

Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

No matter how hard it is to see kid tears, grown-up tears are worse to watch.

To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.

If you think of the moon as already used, it’s not as difficult to take in, because then it’s just like you, Traveled the world like you, Seen the globe like you, But, it’s still bright.

Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality.

False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

There's the parent you want and the parent you have.

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.

For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.