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  • Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

    Evil   May   Coping  
  • 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.

    "Natasha Lyonne, Locked Up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.
  • Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

    Change   Enemy   Legends  
    Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co
  • Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

    Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics
  • If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.

    Europe   Two   Oil  
    "Stranded in Suburbia". www.nytimes.com. May 19, 2008.
  • Humour is a way of relating and connecting to people, especially when you're a minority or misunderstood. It has the power that other forms of conversations or writing don't have. With all the problems I had, sometimes the only way of coping with it is to make fun of yourself.

    Fun   Writing   People  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.

  • Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.

  • 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

    Jobs   Hero   Men  
  • If we're interested in the continuation of the human experiment we need to focus on resilience and coping with change (whether natural or anthropogenic) rather than living as if God or nature has given us a nice, orderly, calm, Babbit-like existence.

    Nice   Focus   Resilience  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

    Children   People   Way  
  • [Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)

    Jesus   Giving   Promise  
  • I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

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

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

  • Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.

    Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
  • Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

    Twitter post from Oct 20, 2014
  • There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

    Sympathy   Death   Grief  
  • Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
  • We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

    Teaching   Learning   Two  
    Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
  • I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.

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

    Events   Body   Coping  
    Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons
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  • God would love to piece together the shattered fragments of your life. But He is waiting ... graciously waiting until the time is right. Until you are tired of the life you are living ... until you see it for what it really is. Until you are weary of coping ... of taking charge of your own life ... until you realize the mess you are making of it. Until you recognize your need for Him ... He's waiting.

    Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.141, Thomas Nelson
  • People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera

    Past   Self   Skills  
    Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall
  • It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as well. I'm funny about numbers. It's become a phobia, so I have to watch it. It affects your day a lot. Before I go on stage, there are certain things I do that are semi-sort of Gypsy superstitious things, but I'm coping with them. It hasn't affected the music, thank God. If you got really bad, you'd say "I'll pick that note instead of that one or sing this song before that.

  • In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

  • Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

    Stress   Way   Fabulous  
    Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.116, Hachette UK
  • Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

  • I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

    Clever   Thinking   Age  
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