Quotes About Jealousy

The landmines in his arsenal include such sins as pride, jealousy and envy, disappointment, unforgiveness, compromise, sexual temptation, fear, and laziness—which God also calls slothfulness. Each one is designed by Satan to discourage you and keep you from reaching your full potential. That happened in Saul's life. He never fully became the person God created him to be because he allowed pride to enter his heart. If we are not discerning and wise, the same will be true of us.

fact, you cannot keep it hidden very long. This is because attitudes like bitterness and jealousy are written in the eyes. If we look closely, we can see joy and happiness on the face of a person who is truly content. Likewise, there usually will be a sense of tenseness or a distance within the eyes of those who allow these feelings to gather within their lives. Anger and bitterness are written on a person's countenance. How

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.

Jealousy and love are sisters.

Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.

...it slays love quicker than any other one thing... Indeed, the jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. By their suspicions the jealous materialize the very thing they most dread...

Lessons from jealousy and anger: sometimes the poison-keeper gets poisoned.

Jealousy is vengeful — not to its target but to ourselves.

To be jealous is to rub salt into your own wounds.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see behind a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.

Don't let your jealousy harden into hate.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Maybe it seems strange to you, all the trouble we're taking to catch a glimpse of what you're going to see in close-up, so soon. It's hard to explain: I don't think it's jealousy, or even impatience. Just a need for independence.

Women give birth, men take life. Therefore, men are jealous of this power. War is menstruation envy.

Most husbands seek to kill their wives' loves so we'll love only them. They are insecure little boys.

Un poseso cuyo único exorcismo sería la muerte de su rival. Solo con su sangre podría excretar la arena negra y colérica de los celos sedimentada en los ventrículos del corazón, expeler el escupitajo denso de la humillación coagulándose entre las válvulas henchidas por el rabioso recuerdo de los besos y las caricias de la mujer infiel.

No es que lo aborreciera por ser él, sino por el que yo era en comparación con él. Esa es la más intransitable de las envidias, la que se coagula en el estrecho pasaje hacia la confianza en uno mismo.

The human tendency to evaluate one's well-being by comparing it with that of another is the cause of Duryodhana's distress.

La admiración es una forma noble de la envidia.

You have ability and people who don't never forgive you for it. Your very existence is a constant reproach to them.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

La envidia es el homenaje que la mediocridad le rinde al talento.

Actually he was forty-three, and owing to a weak heart that made him ineligible for the Army, he had come to Brookfield as a war-time deputy. How a schoolmaster must envy a boy who is obviously going to grow up into a man of much superior personality to his own, and how easily that envy can turn to loathing if the boy senses it and is cruel!