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“People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.”
“Never be envious of what someone else has.You don't know the price they paid to get it, and you don't know the price they are paying to keep it.”
“Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to ones own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.”
“What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.”
“Be happy when people envy you, you are on the right path”
“At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope - that the good fortune of others might one day be hers”
“And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.”
“Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!”
“The grass is yellow on both sides, envy turning on of them green.”
“Harboring envy is saying to God that how He fashioned you in not good enough. Let it go. Embrace who you were created to be.”
“... the serpent hissing between the lips of Envy is so huge, and so completely fills her wide-opened mouth that the muscles of her face are strained and contorted,...”
“Envy is an envious person and truth they don't like to wear”
“Existential envy which is directed against the other persons very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it whispers continually: I can forgive everything, but not that you ar...”
“Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth. Is Envy then such a monster? Well, though many an arraigned mor...”
“You know, sometimes I even envy myself.”
“This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?”
“Often change yourself, when you see that people envy you : they will start to change themselves too, but at that time YOU will not envy them...”
“What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple ...”
“Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.”
“You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers. There might even be a show of th...”
