Quotes About Comparison

Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life -- or even an okay life -- to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

If any one be in rapture with his own knowledge, looking only on those below him, let him but turn his eye upward towards past ages, and his pride will be abated, when he shall there find so many thousand wits that trample him under foot.

El aparato no corresponde a la fiesta: el avaricioso se atormenta más que el pobre, y el celoso más que el cornudo.

Kun je ook maar iemand goed vinden als je niemand slecht vindt?

Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting than yours

What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?

Ä°nsanlar?n ÅŸu anda ellerinde olana, ilerde ellerine geçeceklere göre daha az ilgi gösterdiÄŸi zamanlard? - sahip olduklarin?, modas? geçmiÅŸ ve istenmeyen k?lacak ÅŸeylerin özlemini çektikleri zamanlard?.

From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.

Disciplines do have status, and we judge others as representatives of their disciplines.

Damn, I would give anything to see that man naked, Charlotte whispered. How could you only say he was 'all right'?

Second is N, equal to 1036, which is the strength of the electric force divided by the strength of gravity, which shows how weak gravity is.

In many ways, we actually know more about the surface of Mars than the surface of the Earth. About three-quarters of the Earth is covered by the oceans, while Mars has no oceans.

We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.

Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don't accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

Zuaika hebat, tapi ia tak sehebat itu. Tak seorangpun sehebat itu.

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Kris decided to wait and see if this new Wasp was bigger than a bread box and smaller than the mythical telephone booth.

As time passed, it grew easier and easier to let go of what I had. The reason was simple: I had a lot. Like most people who go overseas to do development work, I did so expecting to find out what it's like to be poor. But awakening to my surroundings after a few months, I discovered that that's not what happens. Instead you learn what it's like to be rich, to be fabulously, incomprehensibly bloated with wealth. No one in Kalambayi could afford to share more than I.

Twelve thousand moons for one moon long ago, isn't that too much?

In Russia a straight nose is rarer than a small foot.

What a people they are!" he said. "They don't even know the Russian for 'bread,' but they have mastered the phrase 'Officer, give us a tip!' In my opinion, the very Tartars are better, they are no drunkards, anyhow."...

If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening.