Top 100 Quotes About Coping
#1. '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
#2. 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
#3. People with Asperger's or autism expend a huge amount of mental energy each day coping with socializing, anxiety, change, sensory sensitivity, daily living skills and so on.
Laura James
#4. I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.
Carnie Wilson
#5. She and I, we were girls who never said anything. Never wanted to assume anything. It was a coping mechanism, saving our faces for when guys like Quin came along and acted all nice towards us.
Mina V. Esguerra
#6. Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.
David L. Conroy
#7. We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.
Peter Senge
#8. Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
Ned Vizzini
#9. Episodes is about discovery of one's psyche and true personality while being completely absorbed in one's one Mind and thoughts. A story of coping and finding an unsure contentment. Finding the Rational Soul in all of us.
Rodney Richards
#10. I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.
Gary Oldman
#11. I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people ... I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.
Keanu Reeves
#12. 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
#13. No relationship is perfect. No matter how much love there is, there's a strong chance you're going to hit rocky times at some point. Life is unpredictable. It can throw out the unexpected and the challenging. Coping with that requires trust and honesty.
Sarah Morgan
#15. (Riley...I just wasn't up to coping with the whims and foibles of men right now. Chocolate, coffee and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.
Keri Arthur
#16. There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.
Jane Hamilton
#17. When children's problem behavior persists despite rules and consequences, it often means that they do not have the skills to cope with challenging situations. We must either change those situations or teach better coping skills.
Jed Baker
#18. People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
Cary Cooper
#21. Many coping strategies have a Zen simplicity. Instead of resolving chaos, find beauty and happiness amid chaos. I am reminded of a friend who said that when she found out her husband couldn't fill her needs, she changed her needs;
Andrew Solomon
#22. The door slams in response, and I laugh. I'm glad she can laugh. It means she really is coping. I know she's internalizing a lot, though. Putting on a show for me. She'll have new scars on her wrists soon.
Jasinda Wilder
#23. She doesn't approve of either sentimentality or graveyard humor at crime scenes. She says they waste time that should be spent working on the damn case, but the implication is that coping strategies are for wimps.
Tana French
#24. MISTEND MINDSET
Manipulate suicidal thoughts to manufacture life-coping tools
Kamil Ali
#25. God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When
Greg Iles
#26. 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
#27. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk
#28. 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").
Brian Luke Seaward
#29. Sometimes, when things are confusing, we try and make sense of it our own way; we find ways of coping up.
Rachel Ward
#30. So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
Bob Inglis
#31. 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
#32. Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
Albert Bandura
#33. Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk
#34. All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#35. Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn't the culprit, my fears were.
Pax Prentiss
#36. I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
Al Pacino
#37. We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.
Andrew Taylor
#38. Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities
Albert Bandura
#39. The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I
Linda Tirado
#40. 'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.
Johnny Vegas
#41. The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.
John Bradshaw
#42. 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
#43. But I don't believe in heroes anymore. I just believe in people coping with their lives as best they can. You do what you have to do, and in some ways you have no more choice about it than a rock has about falling from a high place.
John Varley
#44. The traits that bother you in other people are the Coping Skills they developed automatically, as a result of their life experience.
Odille Rault
#46. I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
Helen Gurley Brown
#47. Complaining about nothing doesn't seem like coping to you, but okay.
N.K. Jemisin
#48. 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
#49. Luna had never been good at coping with death. After all she had gone through, she knew she should've been trained.
But she wasn't. She was regrettably human.
Kayla Krantz
#50. We all have our methods for coping and they usually happen behind closed doors.
Josh Lanyon
#51. Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. 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.
Gabor Mate
#53. Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems
Douglas Engelbart
#54. Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
Barbara Deming
#55. Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
Phil McGraw
#56. He'd spent too long being disappointed by the world - he'd spent so many years pining for something like this, some proof that the real world wasn't the only world, and coping with the overwhelming evidence that it in fact was.
Lev Grossman
#57. As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.
John Ridley
#59. 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
#60. The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
Mercedes Lackey
#61. Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
Monica Raymund
#62. Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#63. Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.
Cathy Freeman
#64. Then it's a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes and trying any old thing.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#65. Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn't seem so dangerous at the time.
Mark Slouka
#66. Overcopulation
The Main Street Babbitts
are fucking like rabbits,
competing and coping
in a crowded place,
overeating and moping,
bleating and hoping,
it's not the end
of the human race.
Beryl Dov
#67. Do you think it's possible that wanting someone you can't have is your subconscious mind's way of coping?
Richelle Mead
#68. My coping mechanism is denial. We'll be fine.
Dannika Dark
#69. Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.
Robert Wright
#70. When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.
Ludivine Sagnier
#71. Besides, what best prepares children to deal with the challenges of the "real world" is to experience success and joy. People don't get better at coping with unhappiness because they were deliberately made unhappy when they were young.
Alfie Kohn
#72. There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.
Laura San Giacomo
#73. Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
Rachel Cusk
#74. Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope - with determination.
Carol S. Dweck
#75. After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.
Unknown
#76. Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
#77. 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
#78. No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
Kate Middleton
#79. When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
#80. You always sound like you're coping pretty well on the phone."
"Don't be fooled. I have to maintain at least some shred of dignity. It's all a front for you.
Cherrie Lynn
#81. Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.
Solange Nicole
#82. People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.
Dean Koontz
#83. Him yelling, Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
Anonymous
#84. Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.
Lisa Gardner
#85. During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.
Maureen Corrigan
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Isolation is not a healthy 'coping' method, it's like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!
Joshua Stannard
#89. ...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
#90. Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
Virginia Satir
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
David W. Earle
#94. 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
#96. 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
#97. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.
Abhijit Naskar
#98. I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people's.
P.D. James
#99. 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
#100. 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
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