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We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.
— LZ Granderson
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
— Betty Ford
As adults, we are always preoccupied with the baggage we carry and are afraid of our burdens,
— Emraan Hashmi
Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree.Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest. — Takuan Soho
I hadn't spent so much time in bemused contemplation of a penis since I was sixteen or so, and here I was, preoccupied with three of the things.
— Diana Gabaldon
I am currently preoccupied with chocolate.
— Melissa A. Craven
I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
— Bruce Eric Kaplan
A married man is a preoccupied man.
— Heather Day Gilbert
I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.
— David Letterman
I was there for these moments, but so young and preoccupied with my own thoughts that I hardly recognized them as moments.
— Patti Smith
Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality.
— Richard Wright
Deserve.' How preoccupied we are with that. With what we should have, with what we are owed. I wonder if any word has ever caused more heartache.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.
— Cass Sunstein
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
— Harriet Martineau
Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with - turning the other cheek isn't my trip.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Childishness is when we're so preoccupied with things that ultimately don't matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.
— Marianne Williamson
We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.
— Mother Teresa
There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
— Norman Mailer
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.
— John Ortberg
Nicholas, dressed in black and trailing them like a sinister storm cloud, had a dry little preoccupied smile.
— Martha Wells
Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
— Jessica Lange
Wretched are those preoccupied with insulting, belittling and discrediting others.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
And when you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
— Amanda Palmer
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
— Val Kilmer
We don't actually want our young people to encounter the mysteries of love anyway; best to keep them preoccupied with the tedium of lust instead. The
— Anthony Esolen
If I spend my life preoccupied with me and my own happiness, I will live life missing the deepest joy that God has for me. When
— Matthew Kelly
Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.
— Mikhail Turovsky
We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.
— Alan Wolfe
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
— Douglass North
People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
— Nancy Mitford
Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.
— Robert Jay Lifton
Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Human civilization has always been preoccupied with erecting walls.
— Marcello Di Cintio
Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.
— E. Stanley Jones
Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.
— Jeff Goldblum
Henry was wholly preoccupied with the farm. I would have gotten more notice from him if I'd grown a tail and started to bray.
— Hillary Jordan
It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.
— Derwin L. Gray
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
I hate the lackadaisical ennui of a sun too preoccupied with itself to notice the infinite hours we spend in its presence.
— Tahereh Mafi
I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness ... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
— Marianne Williamson
He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.
— Ruth Rendell
Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.
— Myles Munroe
I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with watching what I eat. I
— Mindy Kaling
One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
— Irvin D. Yalom
A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
— Sheryl Crow
When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses - not your long-term goals - will guide your choices.
— Kelly McGonigal
Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.
— Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Today worrying means to be occupied and preoccupied with many things, while at the same time being bored, resentful, depressed, and very lonely.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
— Samuel Johnson
