Coping Quotes

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems — Douglas Engelbart

We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface. — Ashly Lorenzana

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. — Muriel Spark

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. — Chuck Palahniuk

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth. — Wally Lamb

The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I — Linda Tirado

Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all. — Pythagoras

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. — The Prolific Penman

This two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear? — Judy Blume

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards. — Jon Michaelsen

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention. — Marilyn Ferguson

Show me a writer that doesn't use their craft as a coping mechanism and I'll show you my unicorn. — Angelina Assanti

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later. — Erin Merryn

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

The fool learns by suffering. — Hesiod

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. — Chuck Palahniuk

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor. — Max Brooks

It's more than coping. It's adaptation. — Richard Kadrey

What is ahead of me is fueled by the experiences behind me. — Celeste Cooper

Don't cry about it. Write about it. — Crystal Woods

She doesn't like sitting about, no matter what is wrong in life. It does you good to have something ahead of you, regardless how small. — Maggie O'Farrell

Jacob: "Let her stare."
Terra: "What?"
Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do. — Justina Chen

Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another. — Don Polson

Do you think it's possible that wanting someone you can't have is your subconscious mind's way of coping? — Richelle Mead

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. — Edward Somers

Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it. — S.R. Ford

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. — Phil McGraw

The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works. — Erica Goros

I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me. — K.A. Applegate

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love. — Rossana Condoleo

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. — Chuck Palahniuk

Perhaps gratitude and love are one and the same. — Erica Goros

Helen devises plans to become a monster herself. — Ekaterina Sedia

Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it. — Solange Nicole

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day. — Frank Beddor

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

I guess in the end, it doesn't matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had. — Mira Grant

The lot of man-to suffer and die. — Homer

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

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil). — Saint Augustine

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything. — Philip Roth

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all. — Diane Keaton

Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope - with determination. — Carol S. Dweck

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism. — Tessanne Chin

A little manic was okay. A little manic paid the bills and got him up in the morning, made him magic when he needed it most. — Rainbow Rowell

Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware."
~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You — Angelica Hopes

I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people's. — P.D. James

Have a drink, and try to relax. All right, have another drink. There are times when getting drunk's not a bad idea. — John Christopher

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

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

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage. — Jeanette Winterson

God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When — Greg Iles

We all have our methods for coping and they usually happen behind closed doors. — Josh Lanyon

But when a person is upset, old patterns of behavior emerge. It's true for me too, except my coping mechanisms are different — Sylvain Reynard

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

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

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

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. — Paul Theroux

Routine is part of coping. — Lorene Scafaria

You can't compare one person's coping capacity to another, hon. — Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes, when things are confusing, we try and make sense of it our own way; we find ways of coping up. — Rachel Ward

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are. — Cathy Freeman

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week. — Robin McKinley

Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism. — Abhijit Naskar

I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else. — Emily Andrews

Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain. — David L. Conroy

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. — Malcolm Bradbury

Writing makes it easier to cope with life. — Mary Sage Nguyen

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? — T. S. Eliot

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

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment. — Gregory S. Paul

The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart. — Tara K. Harper

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz

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

Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Absence of problems
does not lead to happiness.
Dealing with them does. — J. Benson

If Europe's example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don't drive them too much. — Paul Krugman

MISTEND MINDSET
Manipulate suicidal thoughts to manufacture life-coping tools — Kamil Ali

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism. — John Bradshaw

I'm psychologically equipped for this. — A. Ashley Straker

My life is more than a waiting period; it is an expedition. How I perceive it, and how I improve upon it is solely up to me. — Celeste Cooper

When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength. — Celeste Cooper

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial. — Aung San Suu Kyi

After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality. — Unknown

Leadership is about coping with change — John P. Kotter

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. — Mary Karr

I am thankful for the warmth of the sun, for it makes my spirit shine. — Celeste Cooper

We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on. — Sarah Winter

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

Mindfulness describes a "state of becoming" that places the individual beyond judgment and definition. — Celeste Cooper

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews. — Joanne Harris

Life simply blew through her. — Valeria Kogan

During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism. — Maureen Corrigan

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus

Be the good & seek the good. Faith fights anxieties ... go after your faith with body, mind & soul. — Erica Goros

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away. — Julian Barnes

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

It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly. — Carol Anne Dobson