“Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional…energy in explaining why we don’t have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.”— Greg Anderson, amazon.com
“I must learn to keep silent. I must learn to take myself seriously. To have more mobile eyes and a less mobile face. To keep a straight face when I make a joke. Not to applaud every joke made by others. Not to show the same colorless geniality toward everyone. To disconcert at the right moment by ke…”— André Gide, amazon.com
“Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open?”— Ellen Hopkins, amazon.com
“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.”— Brandon Stanton, facebook.com
“I’m so afraid. Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening… They only let you this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Fall in love with the girl who overthinks, because she has a huge heart. The last thing she ever wants to do is upset you.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they’re saying, and what they’re thinking, and what they’re up to, and all the…”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“Don’t twist his sentences and dissect his words because men are generally not very deep humans.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“An over-thinker can sometimes drive you crazy, but they will stay loyal to you for eternity.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part -- it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.”— Hugh Laurie, azquotes.com
“I have to remind myself, stop thinking about the future. Stop thinking about what happened at work today, or another choice you could have made.”— Anna Gunn, azquotes.com
“You worry about the future A LOT. Most of the time, you're lost in your head, thinking about what your next move should be.”— Cassandra Rose, yourtango.com
“They tend to struggle with being indecisive. Because it’s never just ‘an easy decision.’ For them, it’s overthinking a million different factors and a million different possible turnouts.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“Majority of people who are easily stressed are the one's who think too much about the problems instead of solutions. Always focus on solutions.”— Subodh Gupta, amazon.com
“OCD will involve a lot of overthinking. Things that are yet to happen, but you will already imagine it happening inside your head.”— Miggie Sarmiento, thoughtcatalog.com
“They will never know what it feels like to second guess every word you say, to be extra cautious and always mentally prepared for something to go wrong. They won’t know how we’re always expecting the worst — from ourselves, and others.”— Snigdha Chopra, thoughtcatalog.com
“People underestimate what anxiety really is. You want to call those who overthink everything, or make up scenarios in their head crazy, but you don’t understand: those with anxiety can’t control it.”— Hayley Greenwood, thoughtcatalog.com