“Stretch out and relax for a few minutes with a heating pad set on low resting on your abdomen. The heat will loosen tight muscles and ease cramping, while the quiet time lowers anxiety and allows you to recharge and feel less irritated and moody.”— Vicki Clinebell, sheknows.com
“Ana, honey, you've always had a tendency to overanalyse everything. Go with your gut”— E.L James, amazon.com
“You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”— Tina Fey, amazon.com
“Smart girls are the over-thinkers, the insecure ones, the different ones. They know what the real world is like. They analyze every little thing in life. Why? To avoid getting hurt. To find happiness. They stay up at night trying to think about every possible situation to get through all the problem…”— Unknown, puckermob.com
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”— Albert Einstein, powerofpositivity.com
“Sometimes, you overthink things so much that you ruin something before it even begins, then you beat yourself up, replaying everything to your friends and in your mind.”— Kirsten Corley, elitedaily.com
“Don't overanalyze what you see. I have a feeling that you're over-thinking things. Give it some time, and the pieces of this puzzle might come together.”— Jessica Park, amazon.com
“The more I think about it, the more I realize that overthinking isn't the real problem. The real problem is that we don't trust.”— L.J Vanier, amazon.com
“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“As I sit on the folding metal chair I begin to fear getting up. As the finale approaches, I experience outright panic. What if my feet no longer move? What if my muscles lock?”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I was lost in the anxiety of the moment. I was crying and trying not to breathe too loudly.”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com
“He understood, viscerally, what it meant when people said their hearts were in their throats, although it wasn’t just his heart he could feel but all his organs thrusting upward, trying to exit him through his mouth, his innards scrambled with anxiety.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accom…”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“When a writer doesn't write it doesn't mean they don't have time, for they can write anywhere and anytime, on tissues or on phone Notes, emblazon words on a passing cloud. No, it can only mean one thing: they can't handle their own thoughts, can't face their own realities, and so they refuse to let…”— Rachel Jean Matela, facebook.com
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”— Amit Ray, amazon.com