We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction...

Jane Austen never did marry. Why doesthat statement call for such reflexive pity? It carries a diferent meaning if we follow it up: Jane Austen never did marry, and therefore she was given the time...

INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with...

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

The difficulties of life should not distract you from the pursuit of your goals. Graciously pursue your goals.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.

When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made my hands tingle and my thoughts switch to a different hemisphere, right brain...

the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work...

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—’Come out unto...

Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.

Wrapped up in our thoughts we can’t hear love or beauty’s song.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people’s eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

After giving it some thought, I’ve decided to name my monkey mind Ricky Bobby. I was thinking about Latin names like Javier, but I don’t want to make my jumping, distractable self sound mysterious and...

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things’.

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you’ll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and...

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our...

Some days are hard on us. Life gets serious and shit sucks. But you’re my favorite distraction, attraction and human being. And, I can’t wait to love you more tomorrow.

Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.

The biggest distraction in life to one’s focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.

I didn’t list listening as one of my skills, probably because I didn’t hear what the interviewer asked.

Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess truly that I am accustomed to be very much distracted. Very often I...

She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to...

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.