Life Distract Quotes

#1. For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Margaret Cavendish

#2. Anyone who speaks Latin (gets egged by the populace for being a nerd) must have wondered from the start if Panem was a reference to the Roman people's reported liking for bread and circuses - for instant gratification that would distract them from the harsher realities of life.

Leah Wilson

#3. Take time to determine the way you will live your life. But once you know the way you should go, let nothing distract you from your path.

Ellyn Sanna

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny." Cath circled her spoon hand in front of her face, accidentally flicking cottage cheese on her sweater. "He already knows about all this. This is what I look like." She tried to scrape the cottage cheese off without rubbing it in." (pg. 290)

Rainbow Rowell

#6. the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.

Rick Warren

#7. An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.

Johan Oscar Smith

#8. All along I've thought the best way to keep out all the voices in my head directing my life this way and that was to stay busy, to distract my brain from itself, but it's this profound silence that releases me from worry.

Rachel Friedman

#9. Sometimes I think Life is best summed up as
(a) Awful Bits
and
)b) This That Successfully Distract One from the Awful Bits

Michelle Cooper

#10. At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing

Patrick Ness

#11. Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"

"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.

Paul Kalanithi

#12. Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you
the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.

Seth Godin

#13. many gamers have already figured out how to use the immersive power of play to distract themselves from their hunger: a hunger for more satisfying work, for a stronger sense of community, and for a more engaging and meaningful life.

Jane McGonigal

#14. The devil will try and do everything possible to stop, distract us from our purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Chuck Parson walking toward us with some intent. Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from the larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of homicide.

John Green

#16. Never let anyone distract your focus from accomplishing great opportunities in your life .

Tawana Beecham

#17. I think I know how to raise a kid. You just play catch with 'em. You just talk about life, and you distract them by throwing the ball. They don't even notice that you're filling up their heads with your theories.

Bill Burr

#18. In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Joseph Addison

#19. Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

John Green

#20. I had a dream about you. You suggested to split the profits, so I did. I threw one half in the furnace to power the steam engine, and the other half in the air to distract our pursuers.

Bauvard

#21. I'm really happy that I've been able to make people laugh and distract them from their day to day bullshit at a comedy show or because they enjoyed one of my CDs or TV specials, but I don't know how many people have actually had life changing thoughts because of it.

Joe Rogan

#22. We dream of the future, to distract ourselves from the present, in order to forget the past.

Heal the past, live in the present and don't rush to the future. Life is a journey and it will all be over before you know it.

L.J. Vanier

#23. And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

Miguel De Unamuno

#24. Our state of wellness determines our response to any situation. Never allow the busyness of life to distract you from taking care of your well being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Emotions don't distract high performers.

Abhishek Ratna

#26. I swear you're a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don't want to distract you while you're attempting to drive and I'm dependent on you for my life. (Sway)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#28. In fact, my mother always says that emotions are what the gods gave us to distract us from the pain of life. They are what make life bearable and what keeps us going no matter how hard it gets. (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

Andre Agassi

#30. Tis reason's part
To govern and to guard the heart,
To lull the wayward soul to rest,
When hopes and fears distract the breast;
Reason may calm this doubtful strife,
And steer thy bark through various life.

Nathaniel Cotton

#31. Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really is. It is his focused objective to lure you out of the path of strength, life, and authority and into a course of intentional destruction.

Lisa Bevere

#32. We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.

Nikki Rowe

#33. Don't let the burdens and hardships of this life
distract you or discourage you, but keep your eyes firmly fixed on what God has promised
at the end of our journey: heaven itself.

Billy Graham

#34. Let nothing distract you from your opponent. He is between you and the rest of your life, and you must move past him to see it.

Scott James Magner

#35. I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

Michael Leunig

#36. Minimalism is an attitude. It is the intention to keep the things that are of true value to you and to get rid of those that distract you from them. This attitude eventually becomes a way of life and is embodied in all aspects of your existence. Letting

Joshua Cole

#37. But if I paid attention, really paid attention maybe I could ignore the mountain of sadness and she might entertain and distract me and I would think this is life. The romance and the sadness. I am in it now. I did do that which is what happened.

Eileen Myles

#38. That reading is an indulgence that only serves to distract from more important things in life." This statement came from Mr. Roberts. "Such as?" Anthony asked. "Such as the improvement of oneself, of one's household and of one's business.

Sophie Barnes

#39. The very essence of leadership is you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato's unexamined life, is not worth living.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

#40. Don't let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#41. I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they've built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.

Jackie Haze

#42. Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

Miranda Hart

#43. When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Viktor E. Frankl

#44. A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Ransom Riggs