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Quotes about Coping

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.
- Oprah Winfrey
Our society arbitrarily defines health as the capacity for work and the capacity for enjoyment, but "true health is something quite different. True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die. Health is not a condition of my body; it is the power of my soul to cope with the varying condition of that body.
- Philip Yancey
The role of the doctor, nurse, social worker, minister, or loving friend is simply this: to keep the nutcracker of circumstances from destroying, and to help the sufferer see that even the worst hardships open up the potential for growth and development.
- Philip Yancey
the best way to prepare for suffering is to work on a strong, supportive life when you're healthy.
- Philip Yancey
When Bad Things Happen to Good People and his lectures.
- Dennis Prager
Giving the emotion a name is the way we come to understand how what happened affected us. After we've told the facts of what happened, we must face our feelings. We are each hurt in our own unique ways, and when we give voice to this pain, we begin to heal it.
- Desmond Tutu
If something upset her, she usually talked about it or cried and then got on the road to getting over it or changing it. … Kate had a tendency to bury her hurts deep inside and when they tried to rear their ugly heads, she effectively pushed them right back down. Kate gave the appearance of handling upsets well, when in actuality she did not handle them at all.
- Lori Wick
Contentment is taking your present situation—whatever obstacles you are facing, whatever limitation you are living with, whatever chronic condition wears you down, whatever has smashed your dreams, whatever factors and circumstances in life tend to push you under—and admitting you don't like it but never saying, "I can't cope with it.
- John Maxwell
I have to manage my emotions.
- Caeleb Dressel
Tears can be good. They can cleanse us form our misery.
- DiAnn Mills
After a tragedy, I think God gives us a period of numbing as a kind of grace. Perhaps he knows our small minds, given so easily to false hope, couldn't handle the full brunt of reality.
- Donald Miller
If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself.
- Donald Trump