Quotes about Coping
Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
- Billy Graham
I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.
- Christina Ricci
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Comedy, if it didn't save my life, certainly gave me a very different life.
- Bob Mortimer
Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.
- Margaret Atwood
You need to be strong. They were trying to make things better. But it can put a lot of pressure on a person to be told they need to be strong.
- Margaret Atwood
You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals at home.
- Anne Lamott
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day at numbness, silence.
- Anne Lamott
Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we're afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.
- Seth Godin
You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'
- Joseph Wirthlin
Whatever gets you through the night is all right.
- John Lennon
When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.
- Britney Spears