Robert Sapolsky Quotes

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

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

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

Sometimes if you just take the time to really pay attention and break it down, you can figure out what caused it. And from there, generally, I can pull myself up out of it. And if I can't, that's where the support group comes in.

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

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

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

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

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.