Quotes About Coping Mechanisms

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. It's fine. I use foul language and you bust up small mountains." I examined the rubble around us. "We each have our coping mechanisms.

Ashlan Thomas

#4. True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

Mark Thomas

#5. One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Robin Ince

#6. Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.

Jean Chatzky

#7. You have to change the way you handle your past or you'll just keep using that same revolving door of all the familiar coping mechanisms that turn out to be mistakes for surviving the present." "Like

Eve Paludan

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. When entering a room full of soldiers who fear hearts
you put your heart in your back pocket.

Cherrie L. Moraga

#14. Memorial was so functional. It was a storage facility. A prematorium.

John Green

#15. That adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority

William Faulkner

#16. Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

John Lennon

#17. From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. Complaining about nothing doesn't seem like coping to you, but okay.

N.K. Jemisin

#19. Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.

Rachel Joyce

#20. And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

Billy Sunday

#21. We all deal with a certain amount of stress, on a day-to-day basis. I probably smoke too many cigarettes, which isn't a very good thing. I don't have any extraordinary coping mechanism. I certainly don't talk to a dog.

Elijah Wood

#22. The vast majority of chatter surrounding parenthood is junk. All of these seemingly divisive decisions - like pain meds in labor, newborn sleep arrangements, and scheduling - are often phrased as moral imperatives from both sides. Screw that. Take care of your kid. Do what works.

J.J. Keith

#23. Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

Bill Kaulitz

#24. If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Pema Chodron

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

Walter Wriston

#26. My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

Max Brooks

#27. The old King is dead. The new King approaches! And at his approach the world sheds its sorrow. The sings of the old King dissolve like morning mist! The world assumes the character of the new. His virtues fill up the wood and world!

Susanna Clarke

#28. Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

Gregory S. Paul

#29. If it's not difficult, it's not worth it.

Carey Heywood

#30. Via doesn't see me as ordinary. She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn't feel like she needs to protect me that much. And mom and dad doesn't see me as ordinary, either. They see me as extraordinary. I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.

R.J. Palacio

#31. 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

#32. In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Rosalind Franklin

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

Sam Peckinpah

#36. Economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon