Quotes about Coping

it comes to my struggles with feeling unglued.

I can face things out of my control without acting out of control.

Given the right plan, everything in life can be managed... except your heart.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Laughter is a rescue.

As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.