Coping Statements

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Coping Statements: Practice Coping

Coping statements will help you develop and strengthen your coping skills. Experiment with these and find the ones that work for you.

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin

“One way to cope is to think of larger and larger issues that encompass and surround the issue that you find disturbing until the disturbing issue becomes a footnote, a minor issue in your big picture.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.” —Virginia Satir

“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.” —Alan Saporta

“We should always be asking ourselves: Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?” —Epictetus

“You are not categories, evaluations, opinions, or types.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

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Coping Statements from Various Sources

“Coping strategies are designed to limit self-constructions because self-constructions are the basis of anti-coping efforts.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

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  1. Accept life on life’s terms.
  2. Accept the things you cannot change and change the things you can.
  3. Adapt and adjust.
  4. All good things come to an end.
  5. All is not lost.
  6. Be happy.
  7. Be patient.
  8. Be reconciled to it.
  9. Be satisfied with your best effort.
  10. Begin to arrive.
  11. Choose your battles.
  12. Count to ten.
  13. Detach and let go.
  14. Detach yourself from it.
  15. Don’t be so serious.
  16. Don’t force it.
  17. Don’t let it get the best of you.
  18. Don’t let it get to you.
  19. Don’t look back unless that is where you want to go.
  20. Don’t make a federal case out of it.
  21. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
  22. Don’t take it so seriously.
  23. Don’t take yourself so seriously.
  24. Each day is a new beginning.
  25. Easy does it.
  26. Endure until the end.
  27. Expect the worst and hope for the best.
  28. First, make the best of what you got.
  29. Focus on more than the negatives.
  30. Forget about it and move on.
  31. Forgive and forget (stop dwelling on it).
  32. Gain perspective.
  33. Get out of your own way.
  34. Give it a rest.
  35. Give it time.
  36. Give them the benefit of the doubt.
  37. Give yourself a break.
  38. Go back to it when you are fresh.
  39. Happiness is a choice.
  40. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.
  41. I am inclined to […], but I can survive if […].
  42. I am not this.
  43. I am partial to […], but I can cope with life if it doesn’t work out.
  44. I can take it.
  45. I can tolerate what I don’t like.
  46. I desire to control […] but can make the best of my life even if I never learn how.
  47. I don’t need what I want.
  48. I fancy […], but I can work it out if […].
  49. I favor […], but it isn’t crucial to my happiness.
  50. I had sooner […], but I can adapt either way.
  51. I have survived worse.
  52. I lean towards […], but I can get along if it does or doesn’t happen.
  53. I want […] to be corrected immediately, but I will be OK even if it never is.
  54. I want […], but I can tolerate what I get.
  55. I want what I want and want it now, but I’ve learned that it is not a catastrophe, a disaster, awful, horrible, terrible, or the end of the world, even if I never get it.
  56. I wish […] would happen but can cope with reality if it never does.
  57. I would choose […], but I won’t fall apart if […].
  58. I would like […], but I can manage even if it doesn’t.
  59. I would like it better if […], but I can make the best of it if […].
  60. I would prefer it if […], but I can stand it if it doesn’t happen.
  61. I would rather […], but in all honesty, it doesn’t matter much in the long run.
  62. I would select […] given the opportunity, but I can adapt to life with […] anyway.
  63. I would sooner […], but I can make do with whatever.
  64. I’ve survived worse.
  65. If it’s to be, then it’s up to me.
  66. If you’ve got lemons—make lemonade.
  67. In a hundred years, no one will care.
  68. It is more desirable for me that […], but who will care or remember in a hundred years?
  69. It is my preference that […], but I will manage with or without it.
  70. It is what it is.
  71. It would be nice if […] were changed, but I can live with it.
  72. It would seem better if […], but I can accept it if […] happens instead.
  73. It’s nothing. (It’s no thing.)
  74. It’s no big deal.
  75. It’s no big thing.
  76. It’s nothing.
  77. Just for today.
  78. Keep an open mind.
  79. Keep calm and carry on.
  80. Keep it simple or be silly (KISS).
  81. Keep on keeping on.
  82. Keep on trucking.
  83. Keep trying in trying times.
  84. Keep your chin up.
  85. Learn what is serious and laugh at the rest.
  86. Least said, soonest mended.
  87. Let go and let God.
  88. Let it be.
  89. Let it drop.
  90. Let it go in one ear and out the other.
  91. Let it go.
  92. Let it roll on.
  93. Life marches on with or without you.
  94. Lighten up.
  95. Like it or lump it.
  96. Live and let live.
  97. Love your fate.
  98. Make peace with it.
  99. Mistakes are part of the work.
  100. Motivation follows action.
  101. Move on.
  102. My first choice would be […], but it is unimportant.
  103. No pain, no gain.
  104. Oh well.
  105. One day, it will all be just a memory.
  106. One step at a time.
  107. Press on.
  108. Quitters never win, and winners never quit.
  109. Relax.
  110. Roll with the punches.
  111. See it from their point of view.
  112. Shake it off.
  113. Sleep on it.
  114. Some rain must fall.
  115. Start over.
  116. Stay flexible.
  117. Stay open.
  118. Stop moping and start coping.
  119. Stop stewing and start doing.
  120. Stuff happens.
  121. Take a break.
  122. Take it easy.
  123. Take it one day at a time.
  124. That’s life.
  125. That’s the way it is—too bad.
  126. That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
  127. The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.
  128. The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh.
  129. The sooner you start, the sooner you will arrive.
  130. The world won’t come to an end.
  131. There’s no telling.
  132. There but for the Grace of God go I.
  133. Things can always get worse.
  134. Think about it first.
  135. This danger is in my head, not my world.
  136. This is temporary.
  137. This isn’t about me.
  138. This, too, will pass.
  139. Time waits for no man.
  140. Today, I can do better.
  141. Tomorrow, you’ll see it in a new light.
  142. Tomorrow’s another day.
  143. Too bad.
  144. Tough luck.
  145. Turn it over.
  146. Walk a mile in their shoes before you judge them.
  147. We’ll do what we can.
  148. We’re all the same.
  149. What can you do? (When you can do nothing about it, accept it.)
  150. What can’t be cured must be endured.
  151. What goes around comes around.
  152. What you resist persists.
  153. What’s done is done.
  154. What’s gone is gone.
  155. What’s over is over.
  156. What’s past is past.
  157. What’s the hurry?
  158. Whatever it is, it is.
  159. Whatever will be will be.
  160. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
  161. When your dreams turn to dust—vacuum.
  162. Who knows?
  163. Who would have guessed?
  164. You can feel angry without acting angry.
  165. You can’t win them all.
  166. You have to start to finish.
  167. You need a destination to arrive.
  168. You need a target to hit the mark.
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