Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus 
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
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
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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
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
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
When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
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
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
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
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing,
whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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