Quotes about Distraction

Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

There's too much at stake for you to let some little thing distract you and pull you down into defeat.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.

The Christian community is not a spiritual sanatorium. The person who comes into a fellowship because he is running away from himself is misusing it for the sake of diversion, no matter how spiritual this diversion may appear. He is really not seeking community at all, but only distraction which will allow him to forget his loneliness for a brief time, the very alienation that creates the deadly isolation of man.

Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in community while fleeing from themselves are misuing it to indulge in empty talk and distraction, no matter how spiritual this idle talk and distraction may appear...it is precisely such misuse of community that creates deadly isolation of human beings.

I've learned that if I stay busy, especially by helping others, I don't think about my pain. In an odd way, my pain is its own therapy. I intend to go on until I can't go anymore.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.