All Quotes By Tag: Coping

“I don’t forgive him,” I said.”Hell, no, you don’t. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what’s he done to help you get on with yours?”

“In order to cope with death, you need the correct punctuation. Not a final period, not a comma as on Aleya, but a chance to fill in the blank— life, ‘dot dot dot’.”

“I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me – I cared about myself. I wanted me to live a better life, too Caring about myself was allowing me to care about others.”

“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”

“You never really know what’s coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.”

“All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn’t protect you from the truth.”

“The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don’t feel safe to let people in it is because you’re not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.”

“It is what it is. Isn’t that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.”

“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.”

“If you can’t focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?”

“Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.”

“You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.”

“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”

“It’s funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools – friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty – and said ‘do the best you can with these, they will have to do’. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”

“Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”