We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.
Kate ChismanTags: romance marriage relationships disappointment heartbreak relationship envy divorce heartache breaking-up young-love young-lovers relationships-love
The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.
Shannon L. AlderTags: women self-acceptance self-esteem confidence jealousy vanity self-hatred self-loathing competition envy self-love envious self-abuse jealous-woman male-ego jealous-women angry-men gossipers
Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.
Alexander McCall SmithTags: emotion unhappiness envy
Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a million strands of little nesting polished shells, and tropical flowers and ice creams and lemonades and a pale blue surfboard to teach her to surf on and anything else she wanted. Instead he let his checkered Vans step on one of the rolling shells and crush it.
Francesca Lia BlockTags: jealousy envy jealous envious
What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.
Ally CarterI wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
Elbert HubbardTags: fear honesty hate jealousy problems envy
And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.
SenecaTags: life fame envy shortness-of-life
Use your hater to make you greater!
Habeeb AkandeTags: motivational inspirational greatness jealousy determination envy hater
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.
Criss JamiTags: psychology arrogance persecution challenge ego worth envy starvation defense-mechanism narcissist
Envy yearns to find flaws.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTags: jealousy flaws envy flaw envious
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