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...

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

It’s silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.

Life is funny sometimes. Of course it isn’t as funny as smashing your brand new Mustang convertible into your house and having your life flash before your eyes. Sitting here in my car in the...

So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as...

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and...

Inventory:”Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I’d been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and...

Sometimes I feel like I’m lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

You can’t ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

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.