Quotes about Coping
Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.
- Billy Graham
Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we'll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge.
- Terri Blackstock
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
- William Hazlitt
You want to forget your pain. I mean to tell you that doing that will only cause you more hurt. - Khai
- Ted Dekker
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
- Frank Herbert
I'm for whatever gets you through the night.
- Frank Sinatra
Holding the cup of life means looking critically at what we are living. This requires great courage, because when we start looking, we might be terrified by what we see. Questions may arise that we don't know how to answer. Doubts may come up about things we thought we were sure about. Fear may emerge from unexpected places.
- Henri Nouwen
When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply.
- Henri Nouwen
The great challenge is living your wounds through instead of thinking them through. It is better to cry than to worry, better to feel your wounds deeply than to understand them, better to let them enter into your silence than to talk about them.
- Henri Nouwen
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
- Damian Lewis
Treating war as farce is one way soldiers deal with it.
- Phil Klay
I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.
- Rainbow Rowell