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#1

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#2

“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

tags: overthinking

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#3

“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".”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

tags: overthinking

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#4

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

tags: overthinking, understand, women, worrying

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#5

“Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life (such was now my theory) are sufficient to make it a pleasant thing, when they are taken en passant, without being made a principal object. Once make them so, and they are immediately felt to be insufficient. They will not bear a scrutinizing examination. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life. Let your self-consciousness, your scrutiny, your self-interrogation, exhaust themselves on that; and if otherwise fortunately circumstanced you will inhale happiness with the air you breathe, without dwelling on it or thinking about it, without either forestalling it in imagination, or putting it to flight by fatal questioning.”
― John Stuart Mill, Autobiography

tags: happiness, overthinking

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#6

“When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: accepting-personalities, authentic-self, being-free, communication, confidence, ego, egotistical, everything-is-not-about-you, family, freedom, friends, gossip, growing-up, guessing, internalizing, letting-people-in, listening, low-self-esteem, members, narcissism, not-caring, opening-up, overthinking, paranoia, personalizing, reading-between-the-lines, reading-in-to-everything, seeing, self-directed, self-esteem, settings, siblings, social-circles, speculation, taking-things-personally, target, understanding, victomization, winning, wisdom

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#7

“If you're stressing over happiness, you're doing it wrong!”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: add, anxiety, buddhism, christianity, funny, happiness, humor, laugh, laughter, marriage, overthinking, perfectionism, relationships, self-confidence, self-defeating-attitude, self-esteem, self-worth, spiritual-awakening, spirituality, stress, worry

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#8

“Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.”
― Bobby Adair, Dead Fire

tags: guilt, loss, overthinking, regret

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#9

“Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place.”
― Jayson Engay

tags: deep, deep-thoughts, facts, overthinking

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#10

“The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anxiety, be-positive, comfort-zone, expect-good-things, fearing, fearing-change, negative-thinking, overthinking, rationalizing

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#11

“Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him]...knowing that we're going to be apart for so long. It's pure torture.”
― Judy Blume, Forever...

tags: day-dreaming, love, night-thinking, overthinking, relationships

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#12

“They say, "Look before you leap." So look. But do not look for too long. Do not look into the void of uncertainty trying to predict each and every possible outcome, to evaluate every possible mistake, to prevent each possible failure. Look for the opportunity to leap, and leap faster than your fear can grab you. Leap before you talk yourself out of it, before you convince yourself to set up a temporary camp that turns into a permanent delay on your journey into your own heart.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: anxiety, bravery, certainty, courage, fear, opportunity, overthinking, procrastination, uncertainty

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#13

“To think too much is a disease.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground & The Double

tags: mental-health, mental-illness, overthinking

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#14

“Oh! To rationalize oneself into matrimony...Oh! To decide something so grave in life 'after mature consideration'! Choose the color of a dress after a thousand hesitations, but for God's sake, get married without reflecting on it! That's the grace I wish I wish for you. May you even be so distracted that day that you walk past the registry office without remembering to stop there.”
― Colette

tags: elopement, hesitation, long-relationships, marriage, overthinking, wisdom

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#15

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting

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#16

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

tags: emotions, life, spiritual

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#17

“Tell me the story..
About how the sun loved the moon so much..
That she died every night..
Just to let him breathe...”
― Hanako Ishii

tags: love, moon, sun

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#18

“i want to be
in love with you

the same way
i am in
love with the moon

with the light
shining
out of its soul.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: falling-in-love, light, love-quotes, magic, moon, moonlight, night, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, shining

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