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.

Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.

He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts,...

I was just thinking… how it is not and it will never be okay to cause pain in someone’s life just because of the fact that you are envious of them! Is someone taller than...

Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

My envy’s not dangerous; it wouldn’t hurt a mouse.

Marvel hates her because she’s pretty and doesn’t have any kids to worry about.

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have...

Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the...

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a...

I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point...

America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.

There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I’m tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a...

If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings...

In any case where someone is hurt within himself because of a mere jealousy over your success expedition, that is none of your business.You don’t bring yourself low in order to please those who envy...

Do not envy the rich; pity them. Matthew 19:24.

I only envy people who are friendlier than I am.

Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight...

I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then...

The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.

You have a dedication to life and truth that burns out of you as beauty and I envy it so much I want to be around it for the rest of my life.

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow.

I think that a lot of the time, people are generous towards those whom they pity; but only find fault in those whom they see as better than themselves. There is a fake kind of...

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 mortal has in...

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Oui, c’est votre idée, à vous tous, les ouvriers français, déterrer un trésor, pour le manger seul ensuite, dans un coin d’égoïsme et de fainéantise. Vous avez beau crier contre les riches, le courage vous...

I don’t envy “busy.” Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

The survivors would envy the dead.

We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

No bird in a cage has ever come to know what the mountain winds feel like, by staring at the free flying birds, wishing that they would fall from the sky!

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most...

Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!” (On book reviews – from an article written in 2013)

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as ‘moral indignation,’ which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.Another life is never safely envied.

The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.

The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science...

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.

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue.

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...