Rebecca Hall Quotes

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

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

Kids are mostly very resilient.

I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.

I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better. That doesn't mean just the absence of mental illness. It's the presence of positive emotions that allows us to be resilient in the face of adversity.

The more crap you have had to deal with in your life, the better you are at handling 'Big Brother.'

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.

Kids are resilient. My kids are resilient.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

A lot of people out there get hounded about things that are going on in their lives. You just find ways to handle it and go on about your business.

I've been neurotic in my life; I've had neurotic relationships with men. What else is new? But you really have to learn to be resilient - able to bounce back, pick yourself up, and just keep moving.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.

After an injury, I think you have to be strong mentally.

I've always been good at handling stuff mentally.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life, they just don't have to do it in front of tons of people and with our media the way it is. I did, and I'm lucky that I had the resources and the money to take care of myself. Now I love me, so I'm OK.

For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.