“The distractions that stop us from our dreams need to be ignored.”

Build the courage to take the criticism when things go wrong.

Don’t let unimportant people have too much power over you.

Remember the days when you wished for what you had today.

If you feel the pressure in your life, be proud because others believe in you in a way that elevates you to the next level.

Some days you win, some days you lose, every day you learn.

The past is there to learn from, not to live in. 

Love so deep like the blue sea. 

Be so good, they feel bad for not choosing you.

In the mirror, stands your biggest rival.

A map doesn’t tell you where to go, it shows you.

The more rocky the path, the more wonderful the target.

The mirror image has always been my role model.

Everyone knows your worth, they just hope you don’t.

A bad experience can bring out the good in us.

Don‘t care what other people think because they don’t think.

Losing people doesn’t hurt me anymore because I know it’s only their loss. 

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can’t afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

I’m not the distraction in the room.’ ‘oh? And what might be?’ -nora & patch (pg 242)

There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.