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 little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.   Ralph Alfred Habas

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.   Criss Jami

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline . . . because you need to be alone to find out anything.  Vivienne Westwood

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.   Peter Kreeft

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.  Hilaire Belloc

Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness.  Every pursuit of external power – every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe – is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.   Gary Zukav