Jealousy Quotes
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"Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee."
"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."
"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other."
"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."
"And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t."
"She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?"
"There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone."
"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."
"I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy."
"And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve."
"Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves."
"Betrayal is an ironic thing. He or she betrays you then you betray yourself. You think you’re showing strength with your anger, but in reality you’re showing how much you still care."
"He said he wanted to trade lives with me, saying he wanted what I have. He must want for nothing, because that’s exactly what I have."
"If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air."
"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."
"You just punched a prince, Alina. I guess we can add one more act of treason to our list.”I shook out my sore hand. My knuckles smarted. “First of all, are we so sure he really is a prince? And second, you’re just jealous.”“Of course I’m jealous. I thought I was going to get to punch him. That isn’t the point."
"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover."
"I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead."
"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."
"Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there and fill it!"
"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret."
"Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty."
"Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit."
"Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal."
"I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do."
"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy."
"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."
"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."
"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."
"Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."
"People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy."
"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
"Jealousy... is a mental cancer."
"He that is jealous is not in love."
"It is not love that is blind, but jealousy."
"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
"That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it."
"Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping."
"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves."
"You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars."
"The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time."
"Jealousy is the fear of comparison."
"I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy."
"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive."
"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
"Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close."
"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."
"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."
"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
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