Stress Coping Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.

Kim Delaney

#3. I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

Kelly Wearstler

#4. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.

Nick Saint Clair

#5. [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

#6. 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

#7. Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#8. My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

Richard Griffiths

#9. 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

#10. When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!

Emmy Rossum

#11. The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

Rajneesh

#12. Not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.

John Irving

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.

David Grimes

#16. 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