Quotes About Comparison

It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average.

By the standards of our great-grandparents, nearly all of us are coddled. Each generation tends to see the one after it as weak, whiny, and lacking in resilience. Those older generations may have a point, even though these generational changes reflect real and positive progress.

Morality is like taste in many ways—an analogy made long ago by Hume and Mencius.

When we were little," I said, louder, "people used to mistake the two of us for twins. At least, that's what my mom tells me. Ask me, I never saw it. For one thing, I'm obviously a lot better-looking than he is. But enough about that, I don't want him crying on his special day.

What was so funny before?" I asked. "When…? Oh," she said. "The look on your face." "My face?" "Like you showed up to prom and your best friend had on the same dress." "Is that it." "Pretty much." "Marcia Marcia Marcia.

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best? ' published in 1975.

How satisfied are you with your life? How does your life compare with the best possible life you could imagine for yourself?

we care about money not so much because of what it buys as because of where it ranks us among our peers.

insisted on comparing upward, which is the worst thing you can do. As Richard Layard writes, "One secret of happiness is to ignore comparisons with people who are more successful than you are: always compare downwards, not upwards.

I was not comparing my forty-year-old self to my twenty-year-old self, as the twenty-year-old version of me had assumed I would. I was comparing myself to other fortysomethings in my peer group, many of whom also had sustained relationships (often longer), accumulated wealth (often more), and achieved professional status (often higher). True, I was better off than most of humanity, but most of humanity was not my comparison group.

One of the biggest causes of suffering is social comparison," Coleman said. "Status anxiety is a huge component of this kind of self-torture. Have I achieved enough? Am I a failure? Am I a success?

could not suppress comparisons of myself with others. How come I'm not doing what he or she is doing? Look where she is, and look where I am. Pathetic!

happiness comes from judging our own standing relative to those around us.

People, after all, for the most part do not spend a lot of energy comparing themselves with others in far-off lands.

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.

Thus, those with long and glittering careers (e.g. me) tend to look down on those (e.g. Ascobol) whose names have been unearthed more recently, and haven't amassed so many fine achievements.

The rest were rubbish compared to me.

She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.

Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent pregnancies. They silently evaluate and pass judgment, realigning themselves in the pecking order. It's a brutal business, being a woman.

I've always wondered why people who love you do that to you – give you photographs where they look beautiful, you not so much.

If I was as half as good as I was. I'm still twice as good as you'll ever be.

El hombre que se cree superior, inferior o incluso igual a otro hombre no conoce la realidad.»