#jealousy

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #competent #incapable #insecurity #invariably

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assumes #condition #disease #essential #greater

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#approaches #attention #downright #everyone #force

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. ↗

— Herodotus

#gods #great #great success #how #i

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#because #course #florida #i #jealousy

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. ↗

— Bette Midler

#happiness #humor #inspirational #jealousy #success

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#jealousy #love #humor

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#halo #indignation #moral

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#peace #jealousy

and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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