#envy

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. ↗

— Julius Erving

#career #could #envy #family #family life

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#giants #height #i #i do #sisters

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#begets #emulation #envy #great #great souls

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#blessings #counting #envy #fellow #instead

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. ↗

— John Gay

#fools #kind #may #our #praise

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ↗

— Heraclitus

#envy #happiness #lasts #longer #our

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#envy #i #me #merely #no respect

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. ↗

— Chris Wallace

#envy #great #i #i think #look

I remember a relative of mine who used to pick on me all the time, constantly ridiculing my every move and making me feel inferior. One day she had a pimple on her face and was devastated. I told her "Why would you let a little thing like that bother you in such a way? It's just a pimple!" And she cried and said "You can say that, because you're perfect and even if you have ten pimples on your face, it wouldn't even matter!" And I never forgot how I felt in that moment, that moment taught me some important things! First, I realized that the whole time she was picking on me, she actually was feeling that I was perfect! And secondly, I realized that when people think you're perfect, they try to make you feel bad about yourself! I was so taken aback in those few minutes— I couldn't even say anything! I just looked at her while all my realizations flooded my mind and I decided that just because you think someone is perfect, doesn't give you the ticket to make them feel bad about themselves. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#envy #evil-eye #inspirational-life #jealousy #life-and-living

I was just thinking... how it is not and it will never be okay to cause pain in someone's life just because of the fact that you are envious of them! Is someone taller than you? Richer than you? More beautiful? That doesn't make it okay to hurt those people, for all you know, they bear deep wounds and carry heavy burdens and their heartache is far greater than anything you could ever bear! People try to hurt people that they're envious of, without knowing that they are adding to what is already painful. And because someone has more than you or has what it is that you want, doesn't mean that they owe you anything! It's not their fault! Be careful, you may just be wounding an angel soul, and a wound inflicted upon an angel soul, will always, always come back to haunt- YOU. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#do-not-hurt-an-angel-soul #do-not-hurt-others #envy #the-angel-soul #beauty