wise wisdom

People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.

- Epictetus

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

- Douglas MacArthur

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I believe in only one thing: liberty, but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

- H. L. Mencken

Unreason is mostly not the practice of doing without reasoning altogether, but of relying on very primitive and very defective reasoning.

- Amartya Sen

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.

- Marshall Rosenberg

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

- Louis D. Brandeis

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, "At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred."

- Sharon Salzberg

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

- George Bernard Shaw

You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being.

- Susan Skye