Virginia Woolf Quotes

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!'

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present. Fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

I was always taught that you don't think you are anything special 'cause there's always someone who is more special than you. Just be the best you that you can be.

I would look at my profile and be like, 'Look at this girl! She has, like, the most perfect life!' and I would feel so guilty for not feeling blessed all the time.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

The people that I associate with, the circle that I keep, is real simple, and sometimes we think or we're trained to believe that you always have to have more, more, more to make ourselves feel happy or beautiful, but it's the other way around for me. Simplicity is sexy.

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.