Quotes About Comparison

Nothing is stranger than being in a fairly bad place and being told that another place-your destination-is a great deal worse.

She had nothing more to give than what he already possessed. At least so she thought. He

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could…

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that good enough is very different from best.

Feeling that the simplest of tasks requires a Herculean effort. Being riddled with guilt because you have no reason to feel like this when there are so many people in the world who are really suffering.

Never hate jealous people.They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far...

Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different.

each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. ...whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves a feeling disappointed, saying: The book is so much better than the film.

People always tend to help others just so that they can feel better than what they really are

People tend to help others just so that they can feel are better than they really are.

Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work

It's like the Léon Damas story about the black man on the bus who felt bad because the only other black man on the same bus was ugly and sweaty and dirty and ill-kempt. It is hard to express it. So sad.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor's. "He who raises his head above the heads of others," Mr. Kung said, "will sooner or later be decapitated.

IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

Some people have made the argument, well, Donald Trump is bad, but Hillary Clinton may be worse, or there's really no difference. That's insane. That's completely insane.