Cope Quotes

“Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.”
― Steve Goodier

“It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need—” “You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on.” “You make it sound so easy.” Bitterness drips from each syllable. “It’s not. It’s the fucking hardest thing a person can do.” I smooth a damp strand out of her face and away from my mouth. “It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling into You

“I think the question is, can you live without her? Watch her fall in love with someone else?.....If the fear of some random thing happening in the future is bigger than the reality of her being with another guy, walk away now when it'll merely sort of kill you to do it. But you can't have this doubt between you. Man up. Love her the way she deserves it, or let another man do it.”
― Lauren Dane, Inside Out

“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is. We live orphaned on a tiny rock in the immense vastness of space, with no hint of even the simplest form of life anywhere around us for billions upon billions of miles, alone beyond all imagining. We live locked in our own heads and can never entirely know the experience of another person. Even if we're surrounded by family and friends, we journey into death completely alone.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it hard to cope. This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money and not speaking to their relatives and never going home for Christmas and never eating anything with chocolate in it.
Life, he says, doesn't have to be so bad all the time. We don't have to be so anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best as we can.”
― John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back

“COPE

Create Options Pending Emergence”
― Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales

“By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent

“To cop-out, is not a way to cope.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.”
― J Donald Walters

“When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Those who cannot cope with difficulties often fail to achieve their aims in life.”
― sn

“Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do they keep coming back, but they’re bigger and stronger each time they return. Stop shoving us depressives in that direction.”
― Northern Adams, Mickey and the Gargoyle

“Diversion is pernicious to depressives. Our lives are like waking dreams--correction, nightmares--where monsters chase us, never breaking off pursuit in order to rest or to eat or to look for easier prey. Diversion prevents us from confronting those monsters. If we never confront them, we have no hope of ever defeating them. Diversion does NOT work.”
― Northern Adams, Mickey and the Gargoyle

“Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.”
― James Anderson, The Never-Open Desert Diner

“False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.”
― Ymatruz

“The difference between failure and survival is that coping skill you used in between the struggles.”
― Ymatruz, The Coffee Cries Foul

“Poetry Saved Me”
― Bev Flynn

“Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“People just can’t cope with happiness.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda

“Comedy was invented to make people forget,
That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.”
― Cody Edward Lee Miller

“When the suffering does come (and it will), we need to use mindfulness techniques (nonjudgmental awareness) to cope with it.”
― Simon Marshall, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

“Evolutionary models of phobias share the assumption that evolution has equipped us with a predisposition to fear certain targets more than others. In modern conditions, this evolved repertoire creates a high potential for mismatch, focusing defensive systems on negligible threats while downplaying some real and potentially lethal dangers.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“Your hardest day might not have arrived yet. Your toughest challenge in life could still be coming and will you be able to see it through? I hope so. I also hope the stories and poems in this book become sprouts of hope during any future challenges that come your way.”
― Yvette Prior

“I tried to use relationships to cope with my drug problem and drugs to cope with my relationship problem, round and round again. The relationships I developed would make things better when things were going well, but as soon as they began to falter, my integrity and self-worth would crumble as well.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Looking back, I think the reason I kept chasing quick fixes was because, for the briefest moment, the slight reprieve they offered helped me forget how messed up and broken I was. In my heart of hearts, I felt like the slate of my life was so scribbled and dirty, with so many arrests and broken relationships, that it wasn’t even worth trying to clean up. Since I could not be cleansed, fixed, or cured, I simply learned to cope by covering the messy “whiteboard” of my life with pieces of white paper: a fling with a cute girl
boosted my pride, an epic adventure with friends made me excited and confident; sports made me feel tough, while good grades and a nice job boosted my ego. While each distraction helped me to ignore the mess underneath, I never found anything that could erase it. So, I stacked up the distractions until they grew so numerous, they fluttered everywhere throughout the muddled chaos I called my life.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Looking back, I think the reason I kept chasing quick fixes was because, for the briefest moment, the slight reprieve they offered helped me forget how messed up and broken I was. In my heart of hearts, I felt like the slate of my life was so scribbled and dirty, with so many arrests and broken relationships, that it wasn’t even worth trying to clean up. Since I could not be cleansed, fixed, or cured, I simply learned to cope by covering the messy “whiteboard” of my life with pieces of white paper: a fling with a cute girl boosted my pride, an epic adventure with friends made me excited and confident; sports made me feel tough, while good grades and a nice job boosted my ego. While each distraction helped me to ignore the mess underneath, I never found anything that could erase it. So, I stacked up the distractions until they grew so numerous, they fluttered everywhere throughout the muddled chaos I called my life.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose