284 Overthinking quotes

The more you overthink the less you will understand.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come.

Overthinking, also, best known as creating problems that are never there

Put your thoughts to sleep. Do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

Overthinking will not empower you over things that are beyond your control. So, let it be if it is meant to be and cherish the moment.

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.

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.

Don’t think. It complicates things. Just feel, and if it feels like home, then follow its path.

Overthinking ruins friendships and relationships. Overthinking creates problems you never had. Don’t overthink, just overflow with good vibes.

Stop overthinking, put more energy on what you really want to do.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in’ – Napoléon Bonaparte

Don’t keep things bottled up. It’s not good for you.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere

Don’t overthink yourself out of something good!

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.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it.

Overthinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.

I’m too open-minded that I don’t know what to mind anymore.

Don’t overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”

Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It’s important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.

To think too much is a disease.

The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.

Too much thinking leads to paralysis by analysis.

Don’t get too deep, it leads to overthinking, and overthinking leads to problems that don’t even exist in the first place.

Overthinking. A powerful drug of mentality.

Overthinking evaporates when you feel connected with your body, mind, breath and the soul.

Less thinking, more living.

Overthinking arises when you unconsciously provoke negative emotions and thoughts and avoid positive emotions and thoughts.

Don”t gaze too hard at your belly button Or you will unexpectedly hit rock bottom!

Overthinking uses energy and leads to activity with no action. That is one particular problem many will face. Questology is the answer to cure this cancer.

Stop overthinking. You can do it.

Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.

To end hunger of overthinking, you need to eat positive attitude and happiness.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life… My precept is, “Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something”.

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

While you were overthinking, you missed everything worth feeling.

When you overthink you originate obstacles that never existed.

Once you start overthinking it, it’s like it ain’t a feeling no more.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.

A crowded mind, leaves no space or a peaceful heart.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Don’t get too deep, it leads to overthinking, and overthinking leads to problems that don’t even exist in the first place.

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

The best things happen when you’re not overthinking it.

What if instead of wasting our time overthinking, we focused on the good we might do?

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

Don’t let your mind bully your body.

Overthinking can lead to worrying which leads to anxiety. Anxiety can at times be crippling, leaving people frozen and unable to act.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

Everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems.

Overthinking is parasitic. It’s viral. It’s deadly, even.

The main things to rebel against – overproduction, too much technology, overthinking.

I have found that sometimes I do better working on a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

Overthinking is a dream-killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts.

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

If you want to conquer overthinking, bring your mind to the present moment and reconnect it with the immediate world.

Stop overthinking everything. Just let it be. Relax and go with the flow more. Worry less. And don’t take life so seriously… live a little!

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind.

Don’t overthink, just do it.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Thinking too deeply will only drown me.

Overthinking ruins you. It ruins the situation. And it twists things around. It makes you worry. Plus it just makes everything worse than it actually is.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

It’s not time to worry yet.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold.

Let our advance worrying become advanced thinking and planning.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Worrying doesn’t get you anywhere.

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Worry is the stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression…It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

For fast acting relief, try slowing down.

Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3 am.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry… Yesterday and Tomorrow.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.

No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The way you tell your story to yourself matters.

The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

If we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Many who write are panic-stricken at the thought of leaving their 20s behind. More are terrified at the prospect of the Big 40. … For many, the fortieth birthday is a traumatic experience.

The universe doesn’t allow perfection.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.

Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

One day you’ll look back and realize that you worried too much about things that didn’t really matter.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

Those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us.

Everyone remembers the remark of the old man at the point of death, that his life had been full of troubles—most of which had never happened.

If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.

Comedy is defiance. It’s a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it’s the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.

Our stresses, anxieties, pains and problems arise because we do not see the world, others or even ourselves as worthy of love.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.

Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? ‘I’ll take care of it in a moment.’ Of course, you don’t! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster, my friend—you either have a bath or a nap.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.

You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?

But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.

When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

Don’t worry if you borrow, but worry if you lend.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.

I’ve noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don’t want to happen.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do!

A day of worrying is more exhausting than a day of work

Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

More smiling, less worrying… More love, less hate.

The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities.

Surrender to what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.

Don’t worry. Just when you think your life is over, a new story line falls from the sky and lands right in your lap.

When you walk through a storm hold your head up high, and don’t be afraid of the dark/At the end of the storm is a golden sky, and the sweet silver song of a lark.

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

What worries you masters you.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Take a deep breath and give yourself permission to step back from everything that is making you feel anxious.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles…by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it— just as we have learned to live with storms.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.

The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.

Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Going through things you never thought you’d go through will only take you places you never thought you’d get to.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of an old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Don’t worry about who doesn’t like you, who has more, or who’s doing what Instead, let’s cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

I just give myself permission to suck…I find this hugely liberating.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

I try to only worry about things I have control over.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.

Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow but the future. Put a ding in the universe.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When you feel overwhelmed, remember: A little at a time is how it gets done. One thing, one task, one moment at a time.

We would worry less if we praised more.

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.