Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Restricting behavior in a crises is hard to do.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

I've always been calm, and I'm very good in a crisis.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

A little to our astonishment we find that we are still here and that we can still eat and sleep and work and smile. We can deal with an open crisis; we could not fight a shadow.

Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health.

… people who are in trouble, if they knew of some place to go where really sane advice was available might start themselves going in the right direction again.

When it comes to our collective health, how we deal with the multiple crises and problems around us also depends on the power of context - in other words, our resilience.

You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.