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...

When we have balance over body, mind, and soul — and with the power of spirit — anything can be overcome to achieve a positive result. As a spiritual being, we have unlimited power at...

[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable...

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled...

If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.

Be the good & seek the good. Faith fights anxieties… go after your faith with body, mind & soul.

Throw off your grief,’ doubters imply, ‘and we can all go back to pretending death doesn’t exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

Journal writing Helps Us Heal. That’s one of the therapeutic methods to helping us cope with hardship or painful situations in our lives. Writing in a journal allows us to make sense of things and...

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn’t protect you from the truth.

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.

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

When you’re feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren’t thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

My life is more than a waiting period; it is an expedition. How I perceive it, and how I improve upon it is solely up to me.

I am not “cured”–I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting...

I’m psychologically equipped for this.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in...

Everything can change in a heartbeat; it can slip away in an instant. Everything you trust, and treasure, whatever brings you comfort, comes at a terrible cost. Health is temporary; money disappears. Safety is nothing...

The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually...

I repeat one of my mantras. ‘This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.

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...

But it’s more a case of hour by hour, and during my worst times, minute by minute.

I am thankful for the warmth of the sun, for it makes my spirit shine.

…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more...

Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.

May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is … Chocolate.

If I was lonely, if I was afraid of being alone, then why abandon myself? Why run to someone else looking to give myself the thing that only I could give? I wanted to escape...

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.

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

Something still exists as long as there’s someone still around to remember it.

The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don’t feel safe to let people in, it is because you’re not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

What is ahead of me is fueled by the experiences behind me.

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

Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it...

Despair was strength. Despair was the scab and the scar. The walled city in a time of plague. A closed fortification. A sure thing, because it was always safer, less painful to stop trying than...

Absence of problems does not lead to happiness. Dealing with them does.

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her...

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care...

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...

It’s okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life.

It’s not a crime to feel sad, down or depressed. Moving through difficult feelings is an essential part of living life authentically. Though society would have us believe that when we are sad, we need...

The thing about pain, whether physical or emotional, is there’s no running away. You can’t escape it and you can’t hide from it. Not by ignoring it, not by drugging it, not by doing a...

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

I also know I’m not going to stay away. I’m going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I’m good at pain. I’m good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.

It is what it is. Isn’t that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.