Jealousy quotes
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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."
"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that."
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
"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."
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on."
"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening."
"We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before."
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
"Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness."
"Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself."
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
"A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation."
"To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear."
"Jealousy does not wait for reasons."
"You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars."
"Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole."
"Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me"."
"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."
"Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves."
