Mental Burden Quotes

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

I've always had the kinds of careers that have a tendency to go home with you.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.

He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

When I do solo material I definitely tend to overthink it. I make a lot of rules for myself that are a little bit arbitrary and... it's just painful.

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

Everyone seems to be rushing through their lives, wishing they had just two minutes to do all the things they want to get gone.

When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

I don't live under the burden of worries. Problems and challenges are there, you can't deny that. But you must challenge the challenges and not let the challenges turn into worries.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

Life doesn't have to be as hard as we make it for ourselves a lot of the time.

There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a 'thing' to let go of, we're in trouble. We need to change our view of reality, not attack a nonexistent entity.

I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.