Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust.
- Mourning Dove
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 all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
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
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion,
pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance,
expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
-Sheri Rosenthal
You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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