Eden Phillpotts Quotes

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

Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

To an extent, everyone is jealous of everyone.

I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it's so hard.

People who criticise me are just jealous.

Perception's not reality.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

When I was in the 9th or 10th grade, Cheryl was All-American, and she was getting all the pub. I thought to myself, 'Why isn't anyone paying any attention to me?' I used to wish that I wasn't Reggie Miller, that I was Reggie Smith or Reggie Jackson.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.

Being jealous of a friend doesn't mean you hate her or wish her ill.

When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

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

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, ‘okay, that’s where I want to be.’ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like that’s where the player hating starts. You know that’s where everybody’s like, ‘Well it’s not all that

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.