#selves

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

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#details #doing #end #letting #lot

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#eat #i #like #me #out

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#allow #chance #discover #enjoy #future

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#being #display #need #often #people

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#fashion #great #great things #silence #themselves