They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It’s just like the crow,...

To curb this sense of envy and jealousy, we must develop a broader outlook.

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there’s no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn’t fit me.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

Deep rooted envy is the main cause why people put you down, blame, shame, misjudge, maltreat and malign you; abusing your goodness and generosity.” from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

No bird ever looked at a plane in envy

Nanak dukhiya sab sansaar!This whole world is ridden with Sorrow.Stop comparing as we all have a fucked up life, family and job! No matter what others show and potray! ;)”Jhaak ke dekhoge (I mean kareeb...

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...

Let us not believe that an external fast from visible food alone can possibly be sufficient for perfection of heart and purity of body unless with it there has also been united a fast of...

against another’s great merits, there is no remedy but love.”― Max Scheler

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Fear of nature led to society; hatred among men lead to culture; envy among women led to virtue.

The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can’t ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don’t mistake prosperity...

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it...

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

Class envy is dangerous.

There is no disappointment so numbing…as someone no better than you achieving more.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it’s where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it.

Anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing will never discover his own.

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.

If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those...

If an American worker saw you driving a Cadillac, he worked to. earn enough to buy one for himself; the English worker, on the other hand, sought to deprive you of yours.

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.

Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green…

Jealousy was essentially “I want what you have,” while envy was “I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can’t have it.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you’ll realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they...

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Beware of destructive individuals whose spirits breathe every day the worst toxic oxygen of the soul, “SALIGIA” Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia.No matter how much goodness, patience, understanding, assistance, forgiveness and letting go...

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

I admired him more than anyone but I didn’t wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake...

Why envy someone else’s success when God has already blessed you with a mind to strive and achieve yours?

I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn’t let go. It might as well...

thing” as an indifferent occasion for overcoming the oppressive feeling of inferiority which results from his constant comparisons.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Don’t envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become fogged with the lack of perception stained with the sting of longing. The...

When you loathe yourself, a true friend will respect your honesty. And if you’ve been fortunate in life, he will probably share your opinion.

Often change yourself, when you see that people envy you : they will start to change themselves too, but at that time YOU will not envy them…

[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.