Healthy Coping Quotes

#1. Isolation is not a healthy 'coping' method, it's like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!

Joshua Stannard

#2. Death," I say. " It's the one thing they haven't fully conquered. They want to know more about it.

Ally Condie

#3. We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can't feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound - that of glass breaking - until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

Ann Aguirre

#4. You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

Diana Wynne Jones

#5. Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#6. I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

Gabriela Isler

#7. ... depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.

Jan Wong

#8. Royce hated keeping secrets from Hadrian, and it weighed heavily on his conscience, which was amazing, because he had never known he had one. Royce defined right and wrong by the moment. Right was what was best for him - wrong was everything else.

Michael J. Sullivan

#9. You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

Roger Kahn

#10. I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need.

Lauren Conrad

#11. Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Charlie Munger

#12. Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

P.L. Travers

#13. Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.

Annette Curtis Klause

#14. Great work doesn't make me jealous; it makes me want to work.

Glen Hirshberg

#15. Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Bill Cosby

#16. I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies

David Mitchell

#17. 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.

Suzette Boon