#ours

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

— Matt Lucas

#busy #depression #enemy #inactivity #keep

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#get #gun #head #kill #off

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#change #course #delivered #effective #history

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#life #most #sale #sell #your

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#daddy #getting #getting married #hours #i

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

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails. ↗

— James MacArthur

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