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fba0bde "The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity." discipleship distraction St. Augustine of Hippo
f08159b I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear. distraction fear life Bret Easton Ellis
c7455c1 Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. distraction love orhan-pamuk reading snow Orhan Pamuk
f3e5904 "You keep distracting me," I tell her. "All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you!" "Exactly," I say, and I smile at her.j" distraction humor love oliver Jodi Picoult
d87f1e6 Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. distraction George Eliot
9f197d4 "Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!" Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked. "That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know." crying distraction laughter wonderland Lewis Carroll
197a110 Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work. distraction resistance Steven Pressfield
ea73fdd People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness. The black and the black and the black. beyond black dark darkness distracted distraction fused good goodness grab grabbing happiness happy lights people scratch see spider surface web John Fowles
364a6f0 I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement. crisis distraction humour mindfulness self-deprecation thoughts worry Marian Keyes
4b9db60 You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. distraction fear George Eliot
cd341a2 Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer. distraction hesitation leadership procrastination Frank Herbert
6a68dd2 Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes which are unlikely to be completed when we have to hand, in the computer, one of the most powerful tools of distraction ever invented. The entire internet is in a sense pornographic, a deliverer of a constant excitement that we have no innate capacity to resist, a seducer that leads us down paths that for the most part do nothing to answer our real needs. boredom distraction internet internet-addiction pornography Alain de Botton
f8c7e73 The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel. distraction obedience sanctification surrender Watchman Nee
ea8605a The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. distraction worry worship Victor Hugo
bae4afc Being self-owned is a state of mind. discipleship distraction materialism Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1be6a5a 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 impractical. distraction e-books procrastination Cory Doctorow
f8e27be He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time. depression distraction vocation work H.W. Brands
822d60e When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies coffee-houses distraction studying Tom Standage
812f541 She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties. distraction materialism priorities ritual Doris Kearns Goodwin
9206fba Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw. distraction spiritual-warfare suffering thought-life Robert Kurson
a7f21d4 If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture. distraction focus job ministry vocation Barbara W. Tuchman
be5c3a2 Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous. distraction peer-pressure Barbara W. Tuchman
ed12801 "The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them." distraction idolatry materialism Pearl S. Buck
2fb2460 Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything. distraction exposition preaching priorities prophecy Geraldine Brooks
711ae19 Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power. distraction materialism Barbara W. Tuchman
3c56e47 he drawled. His grin turned a little less friendly, more bared teeth than smile. He stepped closer. I stepped back. he said. His look sent a shiver through me. He moved toward me, I sidestepped, leading him away. distraction liam Kelley Armstrong
0dcfc82 Murder was a fascination as always. distraction entertainment mortality violence Erik Larson
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