overthinking Quotes

“But for some people, the invasive can kind of take over, crowding out all the other thoughts until it’s the only one you’re able to have, the thought you’re perpetually either thinking or distracting yourself from.”

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

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.”

″ If you’ve got a head, you’ve got a voice of Resistance inside it.”

“Research can become resistance. We want to work, not prepare for work.”

“The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.”

“I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”

“This is why Miro did not like waiting. It gave him too much time to think, to ponder, to wonder about things he should leave to Artkin.”

″...it’s like saying, ‘Don’t think about cookies,’ and now you’re thinking about cookies.”

Bridget was a brat with common sense while Jane was a soft-hearted child prone to overthinking things but they were both like able and I found their behaviour throughout to be relatable and authentic.

“It was impossible just to swim and float in the morning sunshine as if nobody had anything else of which to think.”

“Man is a thinking reed but his great works are done when he is not calculating and thinking. ‘Childlikeness’ has to be restored...”