Quotes about Coping

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.

All depression is fear-based.

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.

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.