- “Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who’s still winning.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- “My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- Envy motivates a lot of people. Shia LaBeouf
- Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. William Shakespeare
- If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. Debbie Macomber
- Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses. Sylvia Plath
- “When someone truly loves you, they knit their soul towards yours. You are their true affection.It is only here where true jealousy in her most glorious state is given the holiness to reign. A true lover then, is more than just human, they are your poiema; your special poem. And all of hell erupts at the thought of someone else singing your song.” ― Tiffany Dorese Winfree
- “Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “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 can do.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “It’s strange to think how Bardia went to and fro daily between Queen and wife, well assured he did his duty by both (as he did) and without a thought, doubtless, of the pother he made between them. This is what it is to be a man. The one sin the gods never forgive us is that of being born women.” ― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
- It is not greed that drives the world, but envy. Warren Buffett
- “Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- Do you want to be that person with all of their reactions, their desires, their family, their happiness level, their outlook on life, and their self image? If you’re not willing to do a whole sale, 24/7, 100% swap with who that person is, then there’s no point in being jealous. Naval Ravikant
- Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. François de La Rochefoucauld
- Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more approachable. Robert Greene
- It’s a completely useless emotion – jealousy. I don’t go there. Joy Behar
- Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistible urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. J.R. Ward
- “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 with him in the street like a dog and all you’ll feel is regret.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” ― Aeschylus
- “If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, ‘Speak out. Be heard.’ On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: ‘Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- We are always trying to become something else. We are always trying to become noble, to become a hero, an example, an ideal; and if we really go behind this urge to become, we will find that there is envy and that behind that envy there is fear, the fear of what one is. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.” ― Bill Watterson
- “We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.” ― Kate Chisman, Run
- “When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were ‘somebody’.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- Don’t be envious. Be inspired. Thibaut
- Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Dante Alighieri
- “One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the goyim were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it’s one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the Shoah or Endlösung or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors that the immolation had been a punishment for ‘exile,’ or for insufficient attention to the Covenant. This explanation was something of a flop with those whose parents or children had been the raw material for the ‘proof,’ so for a time the professional interpreters of god’s will went decently quiet. This interval of ambivalence lasted until the war of 1967, when it was announced that the divine purpose could be discerned after all. How wrong, how foolish, to have announced its discovery prematurely! The exile and the Shoah could now both be understood, as part of a heavenly if somewhat roundabout scheme to recover the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other pieces of biblically mandated real estate.I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein’s ‘offer’ of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
- “When you readily throw words around like ‘beautiful’, ‘gorgeous’ and ‘sexy’…Ensure the first person to hear them is the one who deserves them…” ― Virginia Alison
- Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, “social justice.” Thomas Sowell
- “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 you have given them, they will resurface again and again at the doors of your home to impede your happiness.Let truth and goodness always prevail but never be again a doormat of their abusive, evil ways.” ― Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul