"Just as the eye which constantly shifts its gaze, now turning to the right or to the left, now incessantly peering up…"

"The mind which does not have a place to turn or any stable base will undergo change from hour to hour and from minute…"

"A person whose mind is distracted lives between the fangs of mental afflictions."

"the things which for the most part offer themselves in life, and which, to judge from their actions, men regard as th…"

"Our foolish minds are weak; they are more than willing to be drawn—and there is so much that wants to draw us to itse…"

"The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life."

"If you cut up a large diamond into little bits, it will entirely lose the value it had as a whole; and an army divide…"

"Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after …"

"All the saints assiduously avoided distraction. Constantly, or at the very least as often as possible, they concentra…"

"Conversation injures more than it benefits. Men talk to escape from themselves, from sheer dread of silence. Reflecti…"