#ourselve

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

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

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#anyone #ever #existence #i #most

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#helped #i #ourselves #person #remembered

We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside. ↗

— Mary Decker

#care #doing #i #i love #lot

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#empower #garden #gonna #knowledge #led

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#move #only #ourselves #peace #planting