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Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
by Jean Vanier

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 PHOTO

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

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

 

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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)

Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb

The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn

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

Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

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

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides

Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu

Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Change comes from within.
- Anonymous

There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi

Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What I know for sure is that
what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey

For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller

You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only good comes from being honest and true.
Only harm and suffering come from falsehood.
It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,
but, in the long run, it does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain

Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning

All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama


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