#coping

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. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#back #call #coping #could #drank

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#children #coping #learn #life #lot

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

— Lorna Luft

#coping #i #life #my life #surviving

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#coping #honest #i #very #well

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#problem #problems

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope. ↗

— Elizabeth Bear

#drama #life #age

The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works. ↗

— Erica Goros

#be-sane #be-silly #coping-strategies #joy #music

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#death #grief #laughter #p- #death

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day. ↗

— Frank Beddor

#daughter #death #father #loss #memories

I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore. ↗

— Neil Young

#losing-a-friend #death