Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

Anyone that hates on you is always below you, because they're just jealous of what you have.

I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.

Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.