#jealousy

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#goodbyes #hurt #lucy-snowe #villette #jealousy

Envy is a buzz killer." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#jealousy #r-alan-woods #jealousy

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#hate #jainism #love #sympathy #thought

... but Charlie had seen love and prise flare in the brown eyes, burning away every trace of sadness and timidity. Rose Petch, she knew, would never abandon her child the way Charlie's mother had abandoned her. ... Charlie stood, trembling, torn nearly in two by jealousy and longing ... ↗

— Ellen Renner

#ellen-renner #jealousy

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#jealousy #resentment #anger

If I had a clone, he’d better be my equal, and not my better. Can you imagine how I’d feel being jealous of myself? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#jealousy #change

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#change #character #jealousy #nature #transformation

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy. ↗

— Pyreglide

#friendship #jealousy #friendship

If you project all source of hatred and jealousy, they will rebound on you with compound interest. ↗

— Indian

#jealousy

Why do people who already have so much get bitter about those who have a little more? ↗

— Dalya Moon

#jealousy