Quotes About Comparison

We live in the Age of Comparison. Too often, we deem our own achievements worthless if they fall short of others' standards. Our best isn't good enough if it's not as good as someone else's best.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.

il n'y a ni bonheur ne malheur en ce monde, il y a la comparaison d'un etat a un autre, voila tout.

The heart of the best woman is pitiless toward the sorrows of a rival.

Oh, count, have pity upon me. I am so unhappy.' 'I have known a man much more unfortunate than you, Morrel.' Impossible! 'Alas,' said Monte Cristo, 'it is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

Well, more than likely you will never entirely dissolve either your fear of your own failure or your small pleasure in other people's.

Such questions are labeled 'ipsative,' which means that if in reality you have both, the question makes it impossible for you to show up with both.

Democrats comprised 37% of voting electorate in 200 compared with 46% in 1960. If the electorate of 2000 had the same balance of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents as the electorate of 1960, Gore would have won an additional 3% of the vote.

I would know Christina Rossetti in a minute but not you.

I have known Nature. I have known Civilization. Civilization is better.

The happier people become the more I noticed my sadness.

Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see." So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days. At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. Daniel 1:11-15 Guided

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

If someone else does excellently in the line you had dreamed of for yourself, you can always believe that, if you had really tried again, you could have surpassed him.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.