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It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

It’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you.

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.

It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be. It was there that I learned it is blessed to receive, as well as that every human being, no matter how base, is worthy of my respect and even my envy because he knows something that I may never be old or wise or kind or tender enough to know.

I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with incredible envy. Because whatever the slings and arrows of dealing with the record business, at the end of the day, they have total creative autonomy. They don't need a lot to do what they do, and Thom [Yorke] and Jonny [Greenwood] and the guys have their own joint in their hometown.

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a writer. It can damage successful writers by giving them an exalted sense of what they've done, and it can crush less successful writers by infecting them with envy and malice at an early stage in their careers.

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He’d put a lot of energy into it.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There are people who, out of envy, will just not like you anymore.

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.