#selves

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves. ↗

— William Law

#humility #judgment #nothing #ourselves #right

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life. ↗

— William Law

#condition #conduct #consist #does #duties

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#end #get #getting #itself #nowhere

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #close #doing #i #mountains

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#focus #get #older #only #other

We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#first #helping #markets #open #ourselves

I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#enjoying #focus #food #food network #fun

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there. ↗

— Spike Lee

#censor #even #gets #lot #ourselves

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. ↗

— David Letterman

#bush #george #george w #giving #house