#coping

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

You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#divorce #divorcing #love-pain #love-sadness #marriage

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#insane #insanity #philosophy-of-life #sane #sanity

She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need. ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#coping #drinking-your-troubles-away #happy-hour #loss #lost-love