Quotes About Comparison

Jealousy lives stateless, having no language, caste, colour, and creed. It works in the minds, as like a termite, works in the wood, silently and peacefully.

Only humanity describes and endorses humans the great creature upon other creatures; otherwise, it stays the worst of all.

Rivals do not carry identity cards.

Shortly and briefly; however, significantly, the definition of discrimination is, Mine is Best; I am Best.

The biggest enemy of a woman, is only a woman, no one else.

The comparison is neither wrong nor awkward since it can enlighten and fragrance life journey if one understands that as the context of knowledge and insight of education, but not as competitive or complex.

You may compare yourself with others in the world to correct your flaws and take the best to become unique. Without that, you learn nothing.

I'm still an amateur. But the world's full of people who don't seem to be as good as I am.

Love was like a toothache.

Other people's problems always seem so fixable compared to our own.

Daria weighed five pounds, four ounces, and was in perfect health. But she was by far the smallest baby in the observation room. And every other baby in there had a full head of hair. The fact that she had no hair drove me crazy. I don't know why. That first night I was so upset that I cried all night long. I was thinking, I did a bad job. I didn't eat properly, I skated too long, and that's why Daria has no hair. I was such a sad, funny little mom, and very far from home.

W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

Our culture has an idea of competition in the pursuit of excellence that can make anyone not striving for the top feel like a worthless, non-productive bystander. This applies not only to one's career but even to one's leisure.

Envy can wake us up to one of two truths: We want something and better do something about it while we still can, or we want something and just cannot have it. […] If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

But what does this system really do? It takes in everything about a situation and then automatically compares the present to what has been normal and usual in the past and what should be expected in the future. If there is a mismatch, the system makes us stop and wait until we understand the new circumstance. To me this is a very significant part of being intelligent. So I prefer to give it a more positive name: the automatic pause-to-check system.

I have noticed that not all HSPs feel discouraged by not being able to do everything their peers do. They have little envy. They appreciate their trait and know it gives them much that others lack. I think the discouragement, like the failure to buffer ourselves, comes from attitudes learned in early childhood.

Praise yourself for taking risks and learning something new rather than for your successes; it will help you cope with failure. Try not to constantly compare yourself to others; it invites excessive competition. Allow time to think. Keep your expectations realistic. Be your own advocate. Support your right to be yourself.

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

And some young country miss Giving her lad a kiss, Quite certain that the olden times were not so good as this.

The more I see of men," she grumbled in one, "the more I love dogs."50

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Even Tolstoy is an insignificant shadow if he takes a stroll with Anna Karenina.

They're scared. They're afraid we won't be worthy of them.