#ours

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#comes #ever #exist #feel #gone

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#going #mad #need #ourselves #say

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. ↗

— John Lubbock

#ask #done #doubt #ever #good

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#busy #depression #enemy #inactivity #keep

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check. ↗

— Ludacris

#bills #cash #check #come #course

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#any #boot #bruised #could #deal

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#bequeath #children #conserve #environment #generation

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#aspects #culture #good #our #ourselves

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just