“Someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Don’t be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else’s problems were, they’d be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.”— Kim Gruenenfelder, amazon.com
“If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won.”— Lalah Delia, twitter.com
“I don't care what people say about me, at least you thought of me to form an opinion of me, I can't say the same.”— @CurtisDonDeano, kushandwizdom.tumblr.com
“Sometimes people hate you because of the way other people love you.”— Unknown, teenage-travesty.tumblr.com
“And what is that worth, the promise of a woman? You're very funny, Highness.”— William Goldman, Man In Black, Cary Elwes, amazon.com
“I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But for now, rest well and dream of large women.”— William Goldman, Man In Black, Cary Elwes, amazon.com
“The things that make us the most jealous or envious are usually the things that we feel we're not living up to within ourselves.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Life is not a competition. Find your own happiness and stay there.”— thequietrabbit, mariannapaige.tumblr.com
“Stop thinking that everyone is having more sex than you, that everyone has more friends than you, that everyone out is having more fun than you. Not because it’s not true (it might be!) but because that kind of thinking leaves you frozen.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”— Jess C Scott, amazon.com
“It's hard to overstate the amount of envy and pettiness that fuels New York City.”— Harry Evans, hollywoodreporter.com
“He is utterly without envy, but there is no merit in that, for he wants to conquer a country that nobody has possessed and scarcely anyone has even seen.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com