10 Quotes To Remember When You Are Overthinking

I hear it all the time, 'I can't shut off my brain', 'I work myself up frequently', or 'I just complicate everything'. Late at night, if I don't watch myself, I can hype my mind up and fixate on the past or future.

Our minds are tools of memory and reasoning, left unchecked it will just go and go and go with no productive guidance.

We can't get mad at our minds for doing its job, but we can take precautions to ensure that we stay productive and happy. Save this article or write these quotes somewhere you will see it when you're likely to be over thinking. Or read them and form your own quote or mantra to recite whenever your mind starts to race.

1. "Things won’t get better unless you think better." ―Karen Salmansohn

2. "We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are." ―Bill Watterson

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

―R.M Drake

4. “Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.”

― Natsume Soseki, Light and Darkness

5. “Too much thinking leads to paralysis by analysis.”

― Robert Herjavec

6. “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.”

― Laurie Viera Rigler

7. “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.”

― Mahsati A

8. 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.”

― Anthony Hopkins

9. “The more you overthink the less you will understand.”

― Habeeb Akande

10. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" . ―Shakespeare