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• People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

  Summer Altice

  Girl, Taken, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

  Charley Reese

  Hate, Envy, Would Be

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• Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

  Aristotle

  Men, Envy, Doe

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• If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Often Is, People, Behavior

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

  Max Frisch

  Comparison

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• Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Fun, Thinking

  1977 HowTo SaveYour Own Life.

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Affection

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• My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Calendars, May

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• A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

  Edmund Burke

  Light, Torches, Lovers

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• Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

  Helen Rowland

  Ties, Jealous, Ties That Bind

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  B. C. Forbes

  Cancer, Jealous, Cancer Survivor

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• Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

  Patrick Henry

  Giving, Vices, Pleasure

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• Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
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  Joni Mitchell

  Greed, Joy, Unraveling

  Song: All I Want

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• Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

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• The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Time, Mad, Devil

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• Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

  David Hume

  Passion, Violence, Affection

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1298, Delphi Classics

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• Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beautiful, Sarcastic

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• Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self Love

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• Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

  Mike Nichols

  Jealous, Rooms, Persons

  "Mike Nichols: The Special Risks And Rewards Of The Director's Art" by Barbara Gelb, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  Washington Irving

  Strong, Regard, Jealous

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works”, p.475

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  The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Winning, Envy, Envious

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• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  Gary Allan

  Stars, Moon, Jealous People

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• I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Vapour, Toads

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

  Gene Tierney

  Party, Thinking, Faults

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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