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Welcome to these Jean Vanier Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Related topics: Inspirational
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Let it be.
- Paul McCartney
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Do not let your fire go out.
- Ayn Rand
Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Don't let anyone else take the measure
of your worth and capabilities.
Always stand proud in who you are.
- Margaret Spellings
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Let's Roll.
- Todd Beamer
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let light shine through the cracks
in the armor of your staunchest beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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