#envy

Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they want but they don't have what they really need. ↗

— Ann Marie Aguilar

#life

If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#believe-in-yourself #ducks #envy #evil-envy #human-nature

Envy won't make you a better poet. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#envy #personal-growth #poetry #relationships #writing

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#envy #greed #illusions #selfishness #simplicity

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. ↗

— Aristotle

#allow #base #belongs #both #does

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ↗

— Aeschylus

#envy #few #few men #friend #honor

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#deer #envy #fairest #fattest #flock

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#cannot #cured #democracy #engine #envy

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ↗

— Josh Billings

#envy #looks #microscope #telescope #through