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.

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

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

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

Leadership is about coping with change

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

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

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.

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

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

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

The fool learns by suffering.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.