We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him. This sentence was the thesis of most of his bad nights, of which he felt this was to be one. His mind had already started to play variations on the subject. Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush - these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth - bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

Envy is envy, both for the wind and for men on earth. The better the place, the more others covet what you have. Be a pauper, a wanderer, a secret in the darkness of night. Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.