Quotes about Coping
Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.
- Lynn Austin
Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain. The longer we avoid the feeling, the more we delay our healing. We can numb it, ignore it, or pretend it doesn't exist, but all those options lead to an eventual breakdown, not a breakthrough.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Why can't I seem to control my reactions? I stuff. I explode.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I tried to prop up what was left of me so I wouldn't collapse into the broken place inside. Good grades. Achievements and accolades. Fun friends and good times. Boys who made me feel special. I tried to steady myself with anything that helped me feel better.
- Lysa TerKeurst
it comes to my struggles with feeling unglued.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I can face things out of my control without acting out of control.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Given the right plan, everything in life can be managed... except your heart.
- John Eldredge
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness
- Charles Swindoll
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
- St. Basil
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Laughter is a rescue.
- Gloria Steinem
It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.
- Monty Williams