Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

I might find that I have a habit of being jealous and comparing myself with other people and riveting my attention on how much somebody else is accomplishing or doing, or how much better they are at such and such. First, I might recognize the story - the mental images and internal dialogue - and say, "Okay, comparing mind." Then, rather than staying caught in the content, I'll bring my attention into my body and open to the immediate feelings that are there.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has all the answers. That was me too.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

You could be jealous of a girl who's not as pretty as you, but you just have that feeling that she's going to take your dude, and you might be right. Or you might be jealous of somebody who's not as good at their job as you, but you have this feeling that she's got that something extra that's going to help her move ahead. Whatever it is, you might have that weird feeling, and you might be right.

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

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

I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.