Quotes About Coping With Pain

#1. Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.

David L. Conroy

#2. If you want something from someone, you have to give that person something they want.

Amish Tripathi

#3. After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.

Unknown

#4. The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.

Bram Stoker

#5. 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.

Celeste Cooper

#6. When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength.

Celeste Cooper

#7. One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

Marianne Williamson

#8. I am thankful for the warmth of the sun, for it makes my spirit shine.

Celeste Cooper

#9. You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.

Rossana Condoleo

#10. When a person is in emotional pain, it's hard to be rational and to think of a good solution. Nevertheless, many of the coping strategies used by people with overwhelming emotions only serve to make their problems worse.

Matthew McKay

#11. 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

#12. 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.

Jasinda Wilder

#13. Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

Somaly Mam

#14. What is ahead of me is fueled by the experiences behind me.

Celeste Cooper

#15. The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.

Nancy Reagan

#17. Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

Michelle Moran

#18. I am not "cured"
I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.

J. Kenner

#19. Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

Mira Bartok

#20. Violence is the only way to achieve freedom, it seems. I wouldn't have thought so before all of this. My escape plan was a more peaceful one, but I know now that it wouldn't have been successful.

Lauren DeStefano

#21. Mindfulness describes a "state of becoming" that places the individual beyond judgment and definition.

Celeste Cooper

#22. Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on others. They do not seek sympathy for their pain and feel undeserving if it is offered. They are especially adverse to sympathy from others.

Renee Fredrickson

#23. To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.

David L. Conroy

#24. Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life "so that we can get up in the morning and do it all over again." It is the brain's own drug for coping with the human condition.

Michael Pollan

#25. Some memories are best left to wither.

Anthony Ryan

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. The starry sky is absolutely gorgeous tonight. Maybe I'll see a shooting star and can make a wish...especially since I'm getting told to get off my phone.

April Mae Monterrosa

#29. I'm not saying that women don't think about sex also. I'm saying that women are capable, for at least brief periods of time, of not thinking about sex, and that most guys are not.

Dave Barry

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

Erin Merryn

#31. Most of you are conditioned by the media.

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

Ashly Lorenzana