#coping

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#boredom #cope #coping #difficuties #fear

I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's filling my mouth at a ridiculous rate and i feel vomit at the back of my throat. I swallow hard and open my lips so I can get the stupid line out and go hide in the woods and-that's when i start crying. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dystopia-fiction #paintings #teen-fiction #teen

Jacob: "Let her stare." Terra: "What?" Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do. ↗

— Justina Chen

#curious #smile #stare #strangers #beauty

When a hurricane damaged my father's house, my brother rushed over with a gas grill, three coolers of beer, and an enormous Fuck-It Bucket - a plastic pail filled with jawbreakers and bite-size candy bars. ("When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it,' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.") ↗

— David Sedaris

#father

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#coping-strategies #strategy

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression. ↗

— Jan Wong

#depression #mental-health #mental-health

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#arrive #consequences #coping #could #demands

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#culture #defining #detail #way #world

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#best friend #coping #food #friend #i

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. ↗

— Jill Bialosky

#death #died-too-young #stars #suicide #death