Quotes about Coping

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Then, when shame strikes, it is so nasty you have to numb yourself, and what better anesthetic than your addiction? It is the perfect vicious circle.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

but I do believe that the only way out of deep sadness is to go with it and through it.

Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope. Dr. Bernie Siegel found he could predict which of his cancer patients would go into remission by asking, "Do you want to live to be one hundred?" Those with a deep sense of life purpose answered yes and were the ones most likely to survive. Hope comes from having a purpose.

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

As you grow stronger, it may return from time to time, but that is how grief works.

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.