Envy Quotes - Page 38

• Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.

  J. Lynn

  Cancer, Grew

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• Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Reality, Inspire

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

  Jack Finney

  Book, Feelings, Firsts

  Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• You are just jealous," Magnus remarked calmly. "Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself." "Oh, I am positively green with envy," Ragnor snapped. "Come now, Ragnor. That's not fair," said Magnus. "You know I love it when you make jokes about your complexion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jealous, Soul, Green

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Quilts, Feet, Hands

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• You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mistake, Yoga, People

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B. K. S. Iyengar, 2005.

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• My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Fall, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.57, Penguin

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• And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Self, Interesting, Hatred

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.468, Random House

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• I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Believe, Hatred

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.48, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

  Susan Cain

  Desire, Ugly, Emotion

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.218, Broadway Books

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• A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Weed, Water, Shadow

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.64, A&C Black

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• You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess.

  Julie James

  Littles, Not Afraid, Mess

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.79, Penguin

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• That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

  John Milton

  Time, Revenge, Hate

  1665 Satan gazes upon Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.463-6.

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  Criticism is something we can avoid easily
  by saying nothing, doing nothing,
  and being nothing.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Relationship, Failure

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• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Dance, Sadness, Expression

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• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
  Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Heart, Broken

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• Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fear, Real

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• Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a certain type of power: that in the name of love you are just trying to fulfill the ego. And it is arduous to drop, because love exists only when all the negative elements of the mind are dropped. It is very arduous.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Love You, Names

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• Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

  Paul Eldridge

  Jealousy, Passion, Love Is

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• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
  Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
  That awareness is my teaching. Never fight with greed, ego, anger, jealousy, hatred - all those enemies that the religions have been telling you, 'Fight with them, crush them, kill them. You cannot kill them, you cannot crush them, you cannot fight with them; all that you can do is just be aware of them.' And the moment you are aware, they are gone. In the light, the darkness simply disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Crush, Teaching

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• What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Strong, Differences

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• Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

  Alfred Richard Orage

  Jealousy, Dragons, Heaven

  Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”

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• Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

  Alfred Adler

  Motivational, Fear, Learning

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• Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
  Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Fall, Passion

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Real, Ignorance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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