226 Quotes About Coping

We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.

Someday she would be able to deal with all the pain that loomed in her heart, but until that day came, she'd have these moments where she would have to absorb it all and wait for the storm to pass.

Keep repeating the exercise of grief and it loses meaning, it becomes rote, false, a game of self-delusion, self-indulgence. A way of never getting over anything, ever.

Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.

A little manic was okay. A little manic paid the bills and got him up in the morning, made him magic when he needed it most.

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

If you can’t fix what’s wrong, you focus on what you can make right.

Honor the pain briefly, give it the deference it deserves, tell it you love it, then it will let you go.

Don’t be so hard on yourself. Don’t be so hard on loved ones. At the end of the day, we’re all just trying to do the best we can.