Carlos Castaneda Quotes

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

Am I an anxious guy? I think I have been called upon as an actor a lot to access emotions like that. But I don't really think I am a big worrier. I don't see myself like that. But I guess other people do. Which is maybe worrying in itself.

I am a very neurotic person all the time.

I'm a fairly neurotic person.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

I'm anxious by nature, I think.