Coping Quotes

• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Coping Mechanisms, Oatmeal

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1991.

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• Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

  Virginia Satir

  Problem

  Steve Andreas, Virginia Satir (1991). “Virginia Satir, the patterns of her magic”, Science & Behavior Books

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• Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

  Muriel Spark

  Family, Children, Inspirational Life

  The Comforters (1957) ch. 6

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• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Coping Mechanisms, Problem

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1993.

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• Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Details, Culture, World

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Coping Mechanisms, Giving, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

  William James

  Happiness, Fear, Stress

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• Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

  Fred Rogers

  Letting Go, Skills, Roots

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

  Albert Bandura

  Everyday, Suffering, Trying

  Albert Bandura (1977). “Social learning theory”, Prentice Hall ; Toronto : Prentice-Hall of Canada

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• Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

  "How to make stress your friend". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. June, 2013.

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• You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

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• I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

  Lorna Luft

  Thinking, Surviving

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• One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

  Piers Anthony

  Inspirational, Happy, Letting Go

  "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Book, Effort

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.10, Lexington Books

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• Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

  Barbara Deming

  Fear, Thinking, Firsts

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, World, Wells

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• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sympathy, Death, Pain

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

  Lou Reed

  Grief, Adversity, Loss

  "Vision : Defining Your Destiny in Life". Book by Stephen R. Covey, 2000.

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• Grief is the price we pay for love.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Sympathy, Grief

  "Happy birthday, Queen Elizabeth. The world needs you now more than ever" by Lee Cohen, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

  Phil McGraw

  Confused, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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