Quotes About Comparison

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

we believe our problems are the greatest and our misfortunes the worst, there is always someone out there who has suffered more.

Do you derive your identity by comparing yourself with me? This is maya, a necessary delusion without which society cannot function. It can uplift you with inspiration, depress you with jealousy or grant you peace by revealing how different you are from me.

One must bear in mind that the concept of God as a judge, which is part of Christian and Islamic mythology, is absent in Hindu mythology

while we believe our problems are the greatest and our misfortunes the worst, there is always someone out there who has suffered more. And just as they survived and triumphed over their suffering, we must too.

Kamu itu bajaj bermesin BMW, begitu Lana mengungkapkan kepadanya saat didesak. Lana kenal banyak BMW bermesin bajaj, dan semua itu habis dia hina-hina. Untuk benar-benar bersanding sebagai pacar Lana, seseorang harus jadi mobil mewah Eropa luar dalam. Lana yang unik dan glamor. Kamu cukup jadi kacung intelektualky saja, kata Lana kepadanya.

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

And we can't have that. Plastic is no comparison for

That's the best thing about little sisters: they spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be. —Gemma Burgess

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of self-pity and pain.

She was nothing like me; she was everything like me. How was that even possible?

I used to wish I look like her, awful pretty. But if that prettiness comes with being stupid, I don't want it.

But until we decide what "enough" means, we'll never know whether we've won or not; we'll never be happy.

GDP is the way we measure and compare how well or badly countries are doing. But this is not a question of measuring a natural phenomenon like land mass or average temperature to varying degrees of accuracy. GDP is a made-up entity. The concept dates back only to the 1940s.

Noel lay stuck to the Naugahyde and apparently felt nothing. His back, soft and wasted, was not unlike Max's. Noel's was so feminine; Max's so dark and hairy - hairier than Noel's. It was dismal to have a hairy wife.

I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.

My boyfriend, like a lot of men, takes great pride in his car. Honey, his car is detailed, waxed, and vacuumed weekly. On the other hand, my car looks like a really big purse.

Critics may find this hard to believe, but students in American public schools today are studying and mastering far more difficult topics in science and mathematics than their peers forty or fifty years ago. People who doubt this should review the textbooks in common use then and now or look at the tests then and now.

Italians basic word chest, as tallied in a recent dictionary, totals a measly 200,000, compared to English's 600,000 (not counting technical terms). But

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?