226 Quotes About Coping

What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.

One of the greatest paths to wholeness is learning how to accept the holes.

Later that night, from the comfort of the big moss bed, Artorius gave Mattie’s shoulder a pat. 'I am so sorry about my family,' he said.'Don’t worry. That’s what best friends are for.' '_Your_ mom was a lot nicer.''But she kicked you out, remember? All parents are pains.''I guess.”'There’s just one thing I don’t understand.'Artorius blinked. '_One_ thing?'Mattie lowered her voice. 'With a family like that, how’d you come out normal?' 'Ever hear of therapy?

Whatever awful things you go through, however miserable you feel, those feelings will pass. But don't think for one second you can't show them now anyway. Who does it help keeping them in?

To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and the light the stars gave off was their brightness.

I crawled out the window and ran into the woods.I had to make up all the words myself. The waythey taste, the way they sound in the air. I passedthrough the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbledaround for awhile, and stumbled back out. I madethis place for you. A place for you to love me.If this isn't the kingdom then I don't know what is.

If you think of the moon as already used, it’s not as difficult to take in, because then it’s just like you,Traveled the world like you,Seen the globe like you,But, it’s still bright.

The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a girl been naturally joyus yet all that had befallen her must surely have driven away the bright birds, one by one, from her breast. As it was, made of more sombre clay, capable of deep happiness, but more easily drawn to the dark than the light, Fuchsia was even more open to the cruel winds of circumstance which appeared to have singled her out for particular punishment.

The best advice I ever received came from my mother: “Do at least one fun thing every day.