Jealousy Quotes - Page 6

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

I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence disappears, possessiveness will disappear. They are all intertwined. In fact, they are spokes of the same wheel, and the hub that supports them all is the ego. So watch the ways of the ego.

Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy - it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.

Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.