Coping Mechanisms Quotes

• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Problem, Inconvenience

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1993.

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• Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

  Monica Raymund

  Lying, Survival, Technique

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• Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

  Robert Fulghum

  Peace, Wish, Peace Of Mind

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.131, Ballantine Books

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

  Phil McGraw

  Confused, Giving, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Oatmeal, Fire

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1991.

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• Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving, Literature, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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

  Muriel Spark

  Family, Children, Inspirational Life

  The Comforters (1957) ch. 6

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• Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Giving, Wish

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• Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Dance, Thinking

  All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

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• Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

  Robert Fulghum

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Peace

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• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Laughter, Grief

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• Dreams are more powerful than facts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Dream, Powerful

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Block, Stress

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.

  Keith Boykin

  Growing Up, Struggle, Responsibility

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• One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

  Robin Ince

  Ideas, Knowing, Trying

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• Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Anxiety, Religion, Atheism

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• As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

  John Ridley

  Vegas, Hustle, Shadow

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Drug, Would Be, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Quirky, Way, Coping

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• Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Revenge, Giving, Spotlight

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Baby, Giving, Lust

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

  Mark Thomas

  Reality, Religion, Atheism

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• I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I’m definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they’re like when you take their preferred substance away.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Heart, Self, Mind

  "Natasha Lyonne, Locked Up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.

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