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“Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begin...”
“How do you surrender when every cell of your being is screaming that your life is not working and that you need to do something to make it work? How do you surrender in that moment when jealousies,...”
“Don't envy my smile because it took me a lot of tears to get it. So when you see the glory, ask for the story.”
“Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we ...”
“I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and diabolical....”
“Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.”
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
“I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.”
“Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time...”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“Envy suggests inferiority.”
“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.”
“Insecurity creates ditches for others and oneself as well.”
“I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I've been assigned a load I can handle.”
“There they were, the movers and shakers of Benjamin Franklin Hight - the sports stars, the cheerleaders, the good, the great, the gorgeous - bent over their pizzas.Trish sensed my angst and said, "...”
“While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him so much of it, evidently, that he could not...”
“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neig...”
“Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.”
“What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.”
