#coping

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

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#depression #life #funny

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

— Phil McGraw

#because #confused #coping #feel #food

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me. ↗

— Al Pacino

#been #career #cope #coping #early

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#give #give me #intellectualism #me #mechanism

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#action #coping #fears #first #later

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #cell #cell phone #coping #difficulty

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#coping #find #good #hotels #i

Sasha's green eyes were right up against yours, the lashes interlocking. "In Naples," she said, "there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you thought, maybe they will." ... You opened your eyes, which you hadn't realized were shut again. "what I'm saying is, We're the survivors," Sasha said. ... "Not everyone is. But we are. Okay? ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#living #survival #life