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44+ Best Overthinking Quotes To Calm The Mind

Calm your mind in any situation with these overthinking quotes. We can all go through the monkey brain scenario where your thoughts run wild. Life is complicated as it is, don’t make it harder by thinking up things that may never happen. Relax your mind with these hand picked sayings!

Overthinking Quotes In Relationships

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1. “Trust the overthinker who tells you they love you. They have, most assuredly, thought of every reason not to.” – LK Pilgrim

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2. “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

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3. “Overthinking is just a painful reminder that you care way too much, even when you shouldn’t.”

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4. “If it’s meant to be, it will be eventually. If it isn’t, stressing won’t make it different”

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5. “No one breaks your heart more than you do by overthinking every little thing.”

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6. “Today I read something that said “someone who overthinks is also someone who overloves” and I felt that.”

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

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8. “While you were overthinking, you missed everything worth feeling.” – Nitya Prakash

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9. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.” – Eckhart Tolle

Overthinking Quotes About Life

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10. “Don’t think. It complicates things. Just feel, and if it feels like home then follow its path.” – R.M. Drake

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11. “Overthinking can lead to worrying which leads to anxiety. Anxiety can at times be crippling, leave people frozen and unable to act.” – Brien Blatt

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12. “We can’t solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein

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13. “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.” – Torrey DeVitto

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14. “I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

mark twain life saying about thinking too much
15. “I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” – Mark Twain

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16. “Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” – Brian Tracy

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17. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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18. “We drink the poison our minds pour for us and wonder why we feel sick.” – Atticus

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Short Quotes For Over Thinkers

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19. “The more you overthink the less you will understand.” – Habeeb Akande

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20. “Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” – W. Clement Stone

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21. “Stop overthinking, put more energy on what you really want to do.” – Amit Ray

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22. “Worrying how things go wrong doesn’t help things go right.” – Karen Salmansohn

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23. “Overthinking, also, best known as creating problems that are never there.” – David Sikhosana

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24. “Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn


25. “Overthinking. A powerful drug of mentality.” – A.M.L.

short reminder to not worry so much mark twain
26. “Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe” – Mark Twain

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27. “Sometimes the worst place you can be is in your own head.”

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28. “Don’t ruin a new day by thinking about yesterday. Let it go.”

life is to short quote to inspire a different mindset
29. “Life is too short to be spent at war with yourself.”

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30. “Stop overthinking, stop worrying, stop complaining, life is too short for all of that.”

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31. “If overthinking burned calories, I’d be a supermodel.”

less thinking mindset quote for calmness
32. “Less thinking, more living.” – S.R. Crawford

Best Quotes To Calm Overthinking

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33. “Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” – Erma Bombeck

its all about the small stuff robert eliot
34. “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” – Robert Eliot

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35. “Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?'” – Shannon L. Alder

before you talk listen william arthur ward
36. “Before you talk, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try!” – William Arthur Ward

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37. “The best things happen when you’re not overthinking it.” – Ben Zobrist

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38. “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.” – Robert Herjavek

short quote about not worrying too much
39. “Stop worrying about what can go wrong, and get excited about what can go right.”

famous dale carnegie overthinking quote
40. “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.” – Dale Carnegie

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41. “You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.” – Philip Arnold

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

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43. “Take time to deliberate but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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44. “Stop thinking, and end your problems.” – Lao Tzu

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45. “Overthinking is like a vacuum of some kind—it sucks you in.” – Dinsa Sachan

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