Quotes About Jealousy

Then the Lord became jealous for His land and spared His people. Joel 2:18

New York is about success. Boston is about resentment.

I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it's so hard.

If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

I remember hating New Kids on the Block from the sidelines because all of the girls loved them. They would just fawn over them. 'Oh my gosh, Joey I love you!' When I was younger, I really couldn't stand them.

When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

It's kinda hard to date as an artist because you're all over the place, and your significant other may seem jealous, depending on what they're doing.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

If you find yourself criticizing other people, you're probably doing it out of Resistance. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Ill health is a form of trouble, as are alcoholism and drug addiction, proneness to accidents, all neurosis including compulsive screwing-up, and such seemingly benign foibles as jealousy, chronic lateness, and the blasting of rap music at 110 dB from your smoked-glass '95 Supra.

Surely, Hell is your former spouse that close again... flirting with a nurse.

At that moment she seemed everything I was not, and this came as a small revelation. I had hated in her what I lacked in myself.

I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

It seemed like that's when she started laying her cold fire of hate.

What good are kindness, self-sacrifice, energy, and a sense of responsibility if they are so jealously guarded that only one's brothers and sisters may benefit from them? —Melita Maschmann

Girls are complicated. They rarely love each other without also hating each other.

The more she sees him as the primary source of her good feelings, the more she will need him to be the center of her life. Remember, the misogynist's jealousy and possessiveness have already seriously limited her world, which further enhances his importance to her. It is a vicious cycle. The more dependent she becomes, the more important he becomes. The more important he is, the more she is willing to give up for him, so that there is less left in her life that is free of him.