To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
- Max Frisch
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Giving Love and Comfort
7 Secrets of Happy Couples
The Pain of Envy
Anger is a Killing Thing
Comparisons are Odious
Things are as they are.
Looking out into the universe at night,
we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars,
nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
- Alan Watts
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
There are two very different kinds of "Reality:"
1. What is really out there, and which none of us can accurately perceive.
2. The "personal reality" that each of us perceives differently from any other human.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
- Max Frisch
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
Nature is neither virtuous nor evil, it just IS.
Assign no moral judgement to stars or mountains, sunshine or hurricanes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Comparisons are Odious
Your Gift
Do Not Compare
We Have All Been Blessed
