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

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

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

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.

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.

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.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems. On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped. One has not to be jealous if one wants to be loving. It becomes so clear that there is no question about it; one can simply see the point that if you are jealous, love is impossible. Jealousy is bound to create misery. Jealousy is part of ego, the shadow of the ego, the shadow of a shadow - and love needs egolessness. They can't go together, they can't co-exist.