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Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus PHOTO

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.
- Epictetus


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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


 

The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn

It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb

The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates

Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward

Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)

There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost PHOTO

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West PHOTO

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous PHOTO

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner PHOTO

Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken

In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous

A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato

Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West

I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton

Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West

I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner

My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner

Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein

A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston

A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)

Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous

The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill

True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm not talking about lust.
A woman in lust wants chocolate.
A woman in love wants diamonds.
- the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

He who marries for love without money
has good nights and sorry days.
- Anonymous


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