Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.
The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.
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.
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.
The more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.
I'm a very, very modest person and with limited abilities. I do have the wish to succeed in anything I undertake, and that does help out, but, in general, there are so many other people who are skilled in their field that I feel very ordinary.
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.
Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.
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.
The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).
Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.
We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.
Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
