Quotes about Jealousy

Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have wounds and scars of their own. They may even be envying us.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes

But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.

Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

how infinitely passionate a thing religion at its highest flights can be. Like love, like wrath, like hope, ambition, jealousy, like every other instinctive eagerness and impulse, it adds to life an enchantment which is not rationally or logically deducible from anything else.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Jealousy says, "Compete with each other." Envy says, "Destroy each other." Empathy says, "Help each other." Love says, "Empower each other.

Hate is strong, fear is mighty, jealousy is powerful, but love is invincible.

You see clearly that he has a lot of pain inside and doesn't know how to handle it. That is why he suffers so much and makes the people around him suffer. What he needs is help, not punishment. If you stay with this practice, the suffering of anger or jealousy in you will dissipate and the flower of compassion will be born.

Envy and hatred try to pierce our neighbor with a sword, when the blade cannot reach him unless it first passes through our own body.