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  • Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

    Jealousy   Heart   People  
  • Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.

  • When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

    Jealousy   People   Envy  
    Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”
  • Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.

    Jealousy   Mean   Long  
    Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “Tale of Genji”, p.56, Tuttle Publishing
  • You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

    FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 12, 2016
  • There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

    Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works”, p.475
  • No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

  • Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

    Jealousy   Wind   Envy  
  • Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

    Jealousy   Hate   Hatred  
  • The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

  • Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

    Jealousy   Men   Helping  
    Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America
  • Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

  • Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

  • Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

    Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”
  • Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

    Jealousy   Fire   Coal  
  • Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

  • What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

  • Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

    Jealousy   Cold   Sunny  
    Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”
  • The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.

  • Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

    Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.169, 谷月社
  • Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

    Jealousy   Hatred   Mind  
  • The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

    Jealousy   Winning   Envy  
  • jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.

    Ayala Malakh-Pines (1992). “Romantic Jealousy: Causes, Symptoms, Cures”, p.17, Psychology Press
  • Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

    Jealousy   Lust   Ego  
  • I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

  • Surround yourself with positive people.

  • Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

    Love   Jealousy   Anger  
    The Mill on the Floss bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860)
  • We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before.

    Song: Good Ones Go, 2011
  • Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

    Jealousy   Prayer   Soul  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2154, Oxford University Press
  • Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy.

    Jealousy   Light   Joy  
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