Quotes About Comparison

The Pain of Becoming For the flower, it is fully open at each step of its blossoming. We do ourselves a great disservice by judging where we are in comparison to some final destination. This is one of the pains of aspiring to become something: the stage of development we are in is always seen against the imagined landscape of what we are striving for. So where we are—though closer all the time—is never quite enough.

But when we believe that only what we want holds the gold, then we find ourselves easily depressed by what we lack. Then we are pained by what we perceive as the difference between here and there, between what we have and what we need.

The church is often compared to a football game: 65,000 people in desperate need of exercise, and 22 people in desperate need of rest! Spectator Christianity compartmentalizes our lives so church becomes a 2-hour slot rather than a lifestyle.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Comparison is the death of joy.

No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

Perhaps eager to put the boot in again, she agrees enthusiastically that Spain is indeed the New France but shrinks from the tiny bite, pinchos/tapas thing: I still have an attention span. I can eat a meal.

We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.

It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.

Their behaviour exemplified two different sides of life, in spite of some outward similarity in their tastes.

In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.

when you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home.

Both the ARIA protection and the fixed indexed annuity are equally great solutions! But they are apples and oranges.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy." —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

You can be winning and feel like you're losing if you don't keep score.

Or maybe in school you didn't learn as quickly as you thought other kids did, and rather than considering the idea that you had a different learning strategy, you may have decided that you were "learning-disabled.

By resenting others' success, you condition yourself to avoid the very financial abundance that you need and desire.

when it comes to money, delusions that you're better than everybody else can kill you.

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday. —ANONYMOUS

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.

After all, then, she was not a clever woman,—not more clever than other women around her! 

Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am nearly sure that no French fingers could do it in England.

He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs