Top 100 Quotes About Coping
#1. 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
#2. Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Malcolm Bradbury
#3. Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.
Patti Feuereisen
#4. 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.
Jeff Cooper
#5. 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.
E. Journey
#6. Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle - like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.
Dan Brown
#7. 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
#8. 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.
Elizabeth Janeway
#9. 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
#10. Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with threats is not objective but subjective - I.e., is due not to objective weakness but to inner psychological patterns and conflicts which prevent the individual from using his powers.
Rollo May
#11. Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
Aeschylus
#12. 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
#13. The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door.
Thomm Quackenbush
#14. I have been addicted to it, and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping, and it's a form of self-medication, and I was smoking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco.
Lady Gaga
#15. I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
Al Pacino
#16. For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.
Jim Carrey
#17. Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.
Jack LaLanne
#18. Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's power does not truly give us solace. It is deeply anxiety producing. The more we watch spectacles of death, of random violence and cruelty, the more afraid we become in our daily lives.
Bell Hooks
#19. 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
#20. There are many things in life that can help you to cope with emotions that have a habit of bringing you down. Just always remember; help comes in all forms, and not necessarily only from people.
Martin R. Lemieux
#21. I was seized by doubt. Should I have come here? But going back was impossible. I had fled a known terror, and perhaps I could cope with this unknown terror that lay ahead.
Richard Wright
#22. Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.
James Anderson
#23. Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration - poetry, novels, music, dancing - if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.
Ben Fountain
#24. Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
Pythagoras
#25. For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot.
Robbie Jones
#26. False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.
Ymatruz
#27. 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
#28. We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.
Ashly Lorenzana
#29. There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.
Thomas Szasz
#30. I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
Lorna Luft
#31. In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.
Willard Gaylin
#32. By the time the clock had moved past midnight on Christmas 1993, they finally clicked the last piece into place: Angola, nestled between Zaire and Namibia and bordering the vast lapping Atlantic. Then, having succeeded in putting the world back together, they went to bed.
Jessie Ann Foley
#35. 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.
Adrianna Stepiano
#36. Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.
Joan Bauer
#37. I say it must have been great to grow up when men were men. He says men have always been what the are now, namely incapable of coping with life without the intervention of God the Almighty. Then in the oven behind him my pizza starts smoking and he says case in point.
George Saunders
#38. Every star that lights up the sky, every bee pollinating the flowers, every pet asking for a treat exposes us to energy that echoes throughout our universe.
Celeste Cooper
#39. He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.
Philip Roth
#40. The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporary, fix for a breaking mind, a coping strategy for a life that had become too brutally contradictory to sustain otherwise.
Mike Jay
#41. Don't judge. I'm not getting drunk. I'm coping.
A.S. King
#42. We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
Dean Koontz
#43. During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.
Maureen Corrigan
#44. Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.
Max More
#45. 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
#46. Isolation is not a healthy 'coping' method, it's like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!
Joshua Stannard
#47. ...the Midwest is coping with a twenty-first-century problem [globalization] with a nineteenth-century political and social structure [relying on state and city solutions rather than regional solutions].
Richard C. Longworth
#48. If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.
R.D. Ronald
#49. Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#51. The idea made Mahlia's chest tighten. It was her own fantasy, the secret one she sometimes curled up to when she went to bed, knowing that it was stupid, but still wanting it, wanting it to somehow all make sense.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#52. Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
Virginia Satir
#53. Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.
Jan Wong
#54. How am I coping? I miss George and the goddamn world is still full of zombies, that's how. Everything else ...
Everything else is just details. And those don't really matter to me anymore.
Mira Grant
#55. Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.
Richard Appignanesi
#56. 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
#57. If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
David W. Earle
#58. Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.
Francois Maspero
#59. It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness seems irrelevant, like a rumor, something I'm supposed to care about but don't.
Lauren Miller
#60. Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.
Lisa Gardner
#61. Waiting exposes our idols and throws a wrench into our coping mechanisms. It brings us to the end of what we can control and forces us to cry out to God. God doesn't waste our waiting. He uses it to conform us to the image of his Son.
Betsy Childs Howard
#62. Disassociation. It is a word I have heard before but never in reference to that mind trick I had used to cope. That trick isn't a figment of my imagination. It was real. It had a name. And if the coping mechanism was real, it means what I have experienced was real too.
Elizabeth Esther
#63. What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
Carrie Jones
#64. I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me - I cared about myself. I wanted me to live a better life, too Caring about myself was allowing me to care about others.
Cate Tiernan
#65. In fact almost everyone in my yearbook wrote the same thing to me: "To weird girl, you're nice." I didn't think it was bad. When I showed my mother she said, "Everyone is different." Being weird became my tool. I'm weird; that's who I am. It was my coping badge.
Jenny Lawson
#66. Possibly this is some demonstration of how amazing the human brain is, adjusting and readjusting reality, plugging up potential crazy with a handy coping mechanism. As for myself, I think it demonstrates that the human brain is made of recycled monkey bits and pure, unadulterated stupid.
Rachel Sharp
#68. Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.
Chevy Stevens
#69. I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people's.
P.D. James
#70. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.
Abhijit Naskar
#71. It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.
Jon Michaelsen
#72. You can't remain in a state of sheer panic and terror indefinitely, and both had run their course. Ever since, I've thought that must be why we cry: our bodies are coping with something our minds and hearts can't absorb by themselves.
Saroo Brierley
#73. 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
#74. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.
David W. Earle
#75. Absence of problems
does not lead to happiness.
Dealing with them does.
J. Benson
#76. I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.
Sienna Miller
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.
Erin Merryn
#80. Perhaps gratitude and love are one and the same.
Erica Goros
#81. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.
Nick Saint Clair
#82. I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.
Ransom Riggs
#83. These problems have been here so long that the only way I've been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.
Mark Bowden
#85. Dove had next to no coping mechanisms when it came to social interactions gone awry. When all else failed - the running, the hiding, the dying - all that was left was the giggling.
The moment she thought about trying not to laugh, it became one hundred times worse.
Debra Anastasia
#86. You can't compare one person's coping capacity to another, hon.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. [When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#88. Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#89. 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.
Victoria Schwab
#90. Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
Tullian Tchividjian
#91. (on Liam Neeson's coping with the death of his wife) ... It's been years and he continues to struggle each and every day, but he is honest with himself about how he feels and continues to work to find acceptance in heartbreak.
Huffington Post
#92. Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.
Gregory S. Paul
#93. 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
#94. Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.
Paul Russo
#95. Sometimes it's a mistake to look too far down the road. There are times in life when you can't be sure of the pattern. You have to meet circumstances as they are.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#96. Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully
Albert Bandura
#97. Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'
Jane McGonigal
#98. I used self-injury as a coping mechanism to help me overcome the emotional stress that I was incapable of dealing with in any other way. Self-injury was a means of escape, a way to relieve the numbness, and an expression of the pain within me. Something that the police wouldn't care about.
Stephen Richards
#99. For a year she found an exquisite pain - almost pleasure - in facing the world as if she didn't care. Look at me, she would say to herself in the middle of a trying day. Look at me: I'm surviving; I'm coping; I'm in control of all this.
Richard Yates
#100. I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.
Chuck Palahniuk
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