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“Life is funny sometimes. Of course it isnt as funny as smashing your brand new Mustang convertible into your house and having your life flash before your eyes. Sitting here in my car in the middle ...”
“Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about.”
“Part of me wanted to be like the other guys at school. I wanted to be simple. People who do less thinking tend to be happier... I wanted to be like the other guys because they were having more fun....”
“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being...”
“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.”
“The ultimate goal of the arrivistes aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than others. He merely uses the thing as an indifferent occasion for overcoming th...”
“As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.”
“It is better to be envied than pitied.”
“By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ”
“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.”
“Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.”
“Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part b...”
“what terrifies me most is how wefoam at the mouth with envywhen others succeedbut sigh in reliefwhen they are failingour struggle tocelebrate each other iswhat's proven most difficultin being human”
“If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something l...”
“التصالح مع الذات يزيل الحقد والحسد فيمتليء القلب محبة وسلاماreconciliation with oneself removes hate & envy so the heart is filled with love and peace”
“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only t...”
“There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.”
“Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.”
“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.”
