Quotes About Comparison

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

If in order to love, we must believe that the beloved surpasses us in some way, does not a cruel paradox emerge when we witness this love returned? 'If s/he really is so wonderful, how could s/he could love someone like me?' 2.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we seek something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

We might do better, instead, to distance ourselves, both practically and emotionally, from those whom we consider to be our equals and yet who have grown richer than us.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

Because we always lack more than we have, and because there are always more people who don't invite us than who do.

there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way.

For Graham's mother there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way.

Geoffrey's bad enough but I'm glad I wasn't married to Jesus.

Your religion is all about being miserable, and wretched. Ours had time for play, and joy. How is this an improvement?

El ego se siente amenazado por la felicidad porque piensa que si eres demasiado feliz él se quedará sin trabajo. De modo que si ve que empiezas a salir de la miseria, vuelve a hundirte

Se dice que Mark Twain dijo: «La comparación es la muerte de la alegría».

You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them killing each other for a percentage.

Definitely this man was not now and never had been a stormtrooper or anything like it. What he had been, maybe, was someone not unlike herself. A bit of a businessman, a bit of a con man, a bit of an adventurer. And since he was older, it was only reasonable to assume that he had been a bit more of all of those things than herself.

A further subtlety of a histogram which distinguishes it from the bar chart is that the widths of its bars (which correspond to the class intervals) need not all be the same.

By one estimate, U.S. output per worker hour was double Germany's and five times Japan's.

Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim--readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to seek more of it--the first lesson must be in humility. . . . Don't waste time and mental energy in comparing yourself to others whether to your shame or gratification, since we are all wayfarers.

Well-being and need are purely relative concepts. There is no such thing as poverty in itself, suffering in itself, unhappiness in itself. All is relative.

Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.

I've never lifted weights in my life," Shudder responded. "My muscle mass is a natural part of my being genetically superior to you.

You can't mix your own shine with people who are already shining expecting your shine to be noticed by the world, in all reality you're just keeping them on top in the light.