907 Quotes About Envy

People like to put their paranoia on you to keep you from having the fun they’re afraid to have themselves.

Inventory:"Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?

Envy can wake us up to one of two truths: We want something and better do something about it while we still can, or we want something and just cannot have it.[…]If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.

It is childish to envy someone for something you do not need.

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.