Jealousy Quotes - Page 5

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

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.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

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

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises. Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is prayer, it is divine, and it makes you divine.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.