Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments?...

Envy and respect are not the same things…Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether your curiosity is intellectual or merely morbid. Not that those who gawk at train derailments are so...

{Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll, whom he translated into Norwegian}I am very sorry that, when I was in America, I did not have the opportunity to grasp the hand of a man who,...

If love were a color, it would be green. At least for me. But her love is blue, and she’s too cool to see that my envy is just amped up jealousness, and a display...

The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down...

The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free.

When you’re working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

I once had a complete life – in love, in envy, in pains. Now, I was living a death. A peaceful, gorgeous, liberating death.

Jealousy is not there to encourage you to make someone fail, but there to encourage one to do more than the one they envy.

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts–and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at...

M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: “He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he had left his heart in other people’s books, and all that...

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need–a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain–we’ll go on forever...

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don’t want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn’t desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates...

There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.

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.