Quotes about Coping

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

Disease and distress need to be healed. Yet over a lifetime, the key to well-being is a person's coping skills. With poor coping skills, you become prey to every accident, setback, or disaster. with strong coping skills, you become resilient in the face of misfortune, and resilience has been shown repeatedly to be present in people who survive to great old age with a sense of fulfillment.

Laughter is humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

If you have no more tears left to weep, then don't weep. Laugh.

All depression is fear-based.

Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

We numb our pain through denial, blaming, rationalizations, addictions, and avoidance.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.