A Collection of Quotes for Coping Through a Pandemic

How to cope with the Covid Pandemic…

These days, the world feels hard, doesn’t it? 

There’s a virus spreading all over the globe, as well as crazy media personalities sharing fear, hate and divisive opinions. There’s conflicting information and regulations that are changing all the time creating uncertainty. There’s people worried about losing their jobs, their loved ones and their freedoms.

Here are a few quotes that may help you reframe the situation and feel a bit better about it all.

“The opportunity to develop resilience comes through difficult circumstances that both highlight and challenge existing mindsets.” – Devra Davis

"We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don't." - Frank A. Clark

“Your struggles and challenges are an opportunity to uplevel your personal growth & spiritual practice.” - Tani Morgan

“This is the year I will be stronger, braver, kinder, unstoppable, and fierce.”

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s True Strength.”

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.” ― Mother Teresa

“Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”- Steve Maraboli

“There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”~ Vicki Baum

So what do you think? Did any of those help? I’d love to hear if you had a shift or reframe from reading this list. I personally think the last one is a fabulous hack.