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8e03dc2 " "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." contentment curiosity doubt envy foes friends hope idleness inventory knowledge laughter life love sorrow sufficienty superfluity unattainable values wisdom Dorothy Parker
6308393 The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. bad-intentions criticism envy good-intentions inspirational intentions kindness motives necessary purity sincerity spot validity weakness Criss Jami
78d38ff There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. double-standards envy hate indignation morality vice virtue Erich Fromm
fe1206c When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself. anger-management civics envy internet playerhaters the-internet Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3482a1e The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts. creativity envy writing Steven Pressfield
c952524 I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! envy faustus jealousy marlowe seven-deadly-sins Christopher Marlowe
d7e5fca The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority. envy fashion glamour publicity women John Berger
7eaed1c The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. envy love John Berger
0a3d9cc Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a million strands of little nesting polished shells, and tropical flowers and ice creams and lemonades and a pale blue surfboard to teach her to surf on and anything else she wanted. Instead he let his checkered Vans step on one of the rolling shells and crush it. envy jealous jealousy Francesca Lia Block
c59b5ae The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. envy life Yann Martel
f07472d I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me. envy jealousy love Hanif Kureishi
64daee9 Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them. envy pity Marcel Proust
a8eaf51 Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world. emotions envy jealousy rage Iris Murdoch
271b5fb "Well, gentlemen, I have listened to all your Solutions, and I now inform you that I, and I alone, except perhaps for Walt Trowbridge and the ghost of Pareto, have the perfect, the inevitable, the only Solution, and that is: There is no Solution! There will never be a state of society anything like perfect! "There never will be a time when there won't be a large proportion of people who feel poor no matter how much they have, and envy their neighbors who know how to wear cheap clothes showily, and envy their neighbors who can dance or make love or digest better." envy perfection politics poverty society solutions utopia Sinclair Lewis
3d1c64a "happiness is a choice. If you choose to mope and be glum, you shall be; but if you wish to be happy and determine to enjoy what life has to offer, then you can have that as well. "She said that nothing is all good or all bad, that life offers everyone a mix of both--though sometimes it does not seem so, and bad is all we can see in our lives, while in the lives of others we see only good and feel envy. She said we must enjoy the good despite the bad, else life can beat us down and leave us hopeless, and that is no way to live." envy good happiness life Lynsay Sands
7b373f8 In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? .. give up days and weeks of our lives, addicted to someone else's drama. drama dying envy ill life live others quality Mitch Albom
ca18450 Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was. envy unhappiness Alexander McCall Smith
804798d He beat me when you not here, I say. Who do, she say, Albert? Mr ____, I say. I can't believe it, she say. She sit down on the bench next to me real hard, like she drop. What he beat you for? she ast. For being me and not you. abuse-survivor envy jealousy violence wife-beater alice walker
171c945 Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will. envy nostalgia suffering Alister E. McGrath
45a7180 "Each of you told what your burden was just now, except Beth. I rather think she hasn't got any," said her mother. "Yes, I have. Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people." beth burden dishes-and-dusters envy louisa-may-alcott mother people pianos Louisa May Alcott
a076963 A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself. envy frankness Anne Brontë
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