Side Quotes

Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.

Alice Duer Miller

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Therese of Lisieux

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Honoré de Balzac

The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Envy is a kind of praise.

John Gay

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

William Hazlitt

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

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.

If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Baltasar Gracián

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Brontë

Friendship which is of its nature a delicate thing fastidious slow of growth is easily checked will hesitate demur recoil where love good old blustering love bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.

Colette

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

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

Cicero

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

Thornton Wilder

To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

Hungarian proverb

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Irving Thalberg

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Solon

Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.

Saint John Chrysostom

You know how many stunning women told me they can't stand a good-looking man? ... Women feel secure with an ugly guy because a man in bad shape isn't gonna cheat.

Outstanding beauty like outstanding gifts of any kind tends to get in the way of normal emotional development and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

Milton R. Sapirstein

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Katharine Hepburn

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Sa'di

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them they start dropping.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Guys think that if a girl is pretty she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or I've had to ask them.

I think if I weren't so beautiful maybe I'd have more character.

Not many people ask me out.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point in the face of all the propaganda is how few Americans actually live this way.

Louise Kapp Howe

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I murmured because I had no shoes until I met man who had no feet.

Persian Proverb

Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

George Bernard Shaw

If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

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