Teresa of Avila Quotes

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

Comparisons are odious.

Not everybody is Cindy Crawford.

We only value something when we measure it.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.

I judge people based on merit, on personality.

I don't like comparing people or teams.

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

There’s always going to be someone who is prettier than you, better than you in some way, but everyone has that something that makes them different.

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

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

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

You are one of a kind and unique. Never forget that.