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  • You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

    FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 12, 2016
  • What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

  • The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

    Jealousy   Winning   Envy  
  • The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

    Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.70, Faber & Faber
  • Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

    Love   Jealousy   Anger  
    The Mill on the Floss bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860)
  • Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

    Jealousy   Pain   Envy  
    Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks
  • Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

    Life   Envy   Ugly  
  • Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

    Art   School   Envy  
  • The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

    William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188
  • The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

    Hurt   Regret   Women  
    Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”
  • Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

    John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”
  • Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

    Jealousy   Running   Real  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3698, e-artnow
  • My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

  • Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

    Jealousy   Sight   Firsts  
  • One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability, they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

    "Trump: The Art of the Deal". Book by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz, November 1, 1987.
  • Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

    Jealousy   Strong   Light  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 323
  • Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

    Spiritual   Fear   Real  
  • The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

    Real   People   Envy  
    Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins
  • Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

  • Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

    Jealousy   Stupid   Envy  
  • O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

    Jealousy   Envy   Tragedy  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165
  • Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

    House in Paris (1935) pt. 2, ch. 8
  • Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a certain type of power: that in the name of love you are just trying to fulfill the ego. And it is arduous to drop, because love exists only when all the negative elements of the mind are dropped. It is very arduous.

  • Some men just want to watch the world burn

    Crush   Depressing   Dark  
  • Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.

  • The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

    Funny   Jealousy   Hater  
    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami
  • Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

    Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
  • To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

    1965 La Chamade, ch.9.
  • Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

    Jealousy   Pain   Men  
    Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.356
  • We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

    Envy   Hatred   Way  
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