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“Envy is for people who dont have the self-esteem to be jealous.”
“You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence--a loss of a heartbeat.”
“Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.”
“She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.”
“They had paused before the table on which the brides jewel were displayed, and Lilys heart gave an envious throb as she caught the refraction of light from their surfaces the milky gleam of perfec...”
“You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.”
“. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.”
“they hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound”
“Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.”
“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”
“There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.”
“Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others corre...”
“People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that...”
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt...”
“I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need--a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain--we'll go on fo...”
“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
“A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.”
“He who dont know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do”
“When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the e...”
“I've got such an envious heart;It sloshes and acheswhen you touch her face,and I don't know what to do with it,other than to justlet it break.”