37 Quotes About Diversion

If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it. (12)

The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that, like a gymnast or a ballerina, you’re contorted to such outrageous limits – I’m speaking of passion – that nothing else matters. I wanted this. I desired diversion.

Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.

Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.

Diversion weakens thy mind.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

I've heard that entertainment is a cure for being tired and for being wide awake as well.

[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.

Diversions and detours of our grandest designs only serve to bolster our need to be in the places that we’re vigorously trying to walk away from.