Coping Quotes - Page 6

• In fact almost everyone in my yearbook wrote the same thing to me: "To weird girl, you're nice." I didn't think it was bad. When I showed my mother she said, "Everyone is different." Being weird became my tool. I'm weird; that's who I am. It was my coping badge.

  Jenny Lawson

  Girl, Mother, Nice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always used humor, but I use humor when coping with things in general.

  Laura Michelle Kelly

  Use, Used

  "Laura Michelle unleashes her inner Chuck Norris". Interview with Carissa Shuman, thecelebritycafe.com. August 26, 2016.

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• Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.

  Elizabeth George

  Children, Mistake, Wish

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• In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

  Willard Gaylin

  Struggle, Safety, Survival

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• The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others' lives through observation, conversation, and by seeking advice. We can use the automatic system to find out who the happy people are, and the reflective system to evaluate how they got to be that way. Pursuing happiness need not be a lonely endeavor. In fact, throwing in our lot with others may be a very good way of coping with the disappointments of choice.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Lonely, Disappointment, People

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• The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving, Justice, Temptation

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• Speaking Out is honest about some of the challenges posed by speaking out and looks at possible responses and coping strategies. By comparing notes, we can help guide each other through what can be challenging life experiences.

  Tara Moss

  Challenges, Honest, Helping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

  Plato

  Character, Responsibility, Men

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face because they juggle the same pressures as their nonmilitary peers, all while coping as single parents while their loved ones are overseas. I wanted to help make their voices heard.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Heart, Voice

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• If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

  Menander

  Pain, Men, Comfort

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• Leadership is about coping with change

  John P. Kotter

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• I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Humor, Thinking

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• Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Real, Commitment, Technology

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• I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

  Ransom Riggs

  Growing Up, Kids, Florida

  Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

  Virgil

  Determination, Lying, Way

  Virgil (1910). “The Æneid of Virgil”, London, J. M. Dent & Company; New York, E. P. Dutton & Company [1907]

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• I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

  Keanu Reeves

  Children, People, Way

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• I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

  J. G. Ballard

  Exercise, Reality, Imagination

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• Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

  Max More

  Mean, Technology, Emotional

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• I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I’m definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they’re like when you take their preferred substance away.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Heart, Coping Mechanisms, Self

  "Natasha Lyonne, Locked Up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.

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• 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

  Jeff Cooper

  Jobs, Hero, Men

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• Some people who are recovering from depression want to use the lessons they're learned in coping with depression and their empathy for people with depression. Others want their career to have nothing to do with depression.

  Marty Nemko

  People, Empathy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

  Amy Pietz

  Self, Coping Mechanisms, Alcohol

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

  Sophocles

  Mind, Body, Difficulty

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• Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

  Somaly Mam

  Inspirational, Pain, Going Away

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• On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

  Deepak Chopra

  Winning, Self, Order

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.97, Random House

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