Coping Quotes
Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.
The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.
The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").
The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.
Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.
Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.
Sadness wasn't a disease you could catch, as far as I know, but from what I seen, people treated it like it was.
I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.
Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.
Grieving is not a race, nor is it a predictable experience - it is as unique as each and every one of us. Therefore by creating your own path you will find your own way through.
We all handle loss in our individual ways, grieve in all kinds of ways. We all go through feeling okay sometimes, but other times, we feel so bad we hurt ourselves or those around us.
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.
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.
The flowers are so beautiful, but God's love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL flowers and all beautiful things combined!
I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of what once was, once upon a time.
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.
When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.
May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.
Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.
It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.
I slammed out of the Priest Hole and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out of events that seem inexplicable.
Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.
When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.
My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.
I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.
I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.
When confronted with challenge, I discover my inner strength.
There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.
Mindfulness describes a "state of becoming" that places the individual beyond judgment and definition.
Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.
Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.
When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but you can find the calmest spot within them.
Jacob: "Let her stare."Terra: "What?"Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.
Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings..
The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life.
Absence of problems does not lead to happiness. Dealing with them does.
What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.
When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you’ve come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing?
Isolation is not a healthy ‘coping’ method, it’s like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!
...this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?
Be the good & seek the good. Faith fights anxieties… go after your faith with body, mind & soul.
He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.
You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.
