Quotes About Comparison

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

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Y nos han acostumbrado a no alegrarnos de lo que tenemos, sino a alegrarnos única y exclusivamente de lo que poseemos nosotros y no tienen los demás. Y aún peor, nos han acostumbrado desde pequeños a mantener todo tipo de ideas venenosas que empiezan siempre por las palabras

Curiosity and imagination are bound together. The age-old human urge to peek behind other people's drawn shutters, the eagerness to compare one's own intimate secrets with the secret intimacy of others, is an urge that may serve as an antidote to the fanatic's lust to murder the difference between himself and others. Or to kill anyone who refuses to change and declines to be exactly like him.

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

She was many years older than my husband, running on the fumes of her beauty.

First (but not last) lesson about futility of trying to replicate good thing or good experience—never as good second time, only causes disappointment.

Why did I need to see someone else's bad luck? To feel glad it was not mine? To scare myself into thinking it still might be?

Remember that envy is one of mankind's greatest flaws. It leads to recklessness in the one who envies and possessiveness in the one who has you by his side.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress my hairdresser, my make-up, it will work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.

They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain as point of comparison to torment them later on when all natural imperfections would disintegrate it.

Fools compare... the wise enjoy.

Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress , my hairdresser, my make-up, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.

No es de extrañar que yo observe su vida y me dé cuenta de que la mía nunca se parecerá a la de él, porque la mía la retiene el pensamiento.

You are much much greater on women. Céline is arid.

Miller is a far more distinguished mind than Céline.

The grass is always greener on the hand that feeds.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.

Moins le blanc est intelligent, plus le noir lui paraît bête.

Van de duizend vormen van het leven kan ieder er maar één kennen. Het geluk van een ander benijden is dwaasheid; men zou er toch niets mee weten te doen. Het geluk wil geen confectiegoed zijn, maar een pak op maat.

The greater their likeness to each other, the more unlike they are to me.