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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.

If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.

In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him.

If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed.

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

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

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.

In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

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.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

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

Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego, unconsciousness.

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

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn.

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.