It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need—” “You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on.” “You make it sound so easy.” Bitterness drips from each syllable. “It’s not. It’s the fucking hardest thing a person can do.” I smooth a damp strand out of her face and away from my mouth. “It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines.

Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it hard to cope. This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money and not speaking to their relatives and never going home for Christmas and never eating anything with chocolate in it.Life, he says, doesn't have to be so bad all the time. We don't have to be so anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best as we can.

Those who cannot cope with difficulties often fail to achieve their aims in life.

God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.

The difference between failure and survival is that coping skill you used in between the struggles.

People just can’t cope with happiness.

False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.

Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do they keep coming back, but they’re bigger and stronger each time they return. Stop shoving us depressives in that direction.

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when I have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.