Paul Rust Quotes

Envy is the central fact of American life.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

If a player has jewelry or a cool car, people in Germany are instantly jealous.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Chinese people become jealous about status more easily. Foreigners are more inclined to look up to successful people. I don't understand why there is a difference. If two people start at the same point and then one person gets ahead, the other should work hard to catch up. But instead, they just curse. They are jealous.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what's over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

I've seen material competitiveness destroy relationships in dressing rooms. People end up worrying about what someone else is earning and whether they're missing out.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.