Quotes about Coping

anger is described as "completely natural, perfectly legitimate. It is that internal happening which prepares us to cope with hurtful, frustrating, and fearful experiences." And "anger is simply a state of physical readiness." He goes on to explain, "When we are angry, we are prepared to act.

But don't imagine that always brave translates to never afraid.

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let is destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.