Quotes About Comparison

The fortunate man is seldom satisfied with the fact of being fortunate, beyond this he needs to know that he has a right to his good fortune. He wants to be convinced he deserves it and above all that he deserves it in comparison with others. Good fortune, thus wants to be legitimate fortune.

Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.

Stop measuring yourself against "their" standards. You are not "them" and can never measure up. Neither can "they" measure up to yours—nor should they. Once you see this simple, rather self-evident truth, accept it, and believe it, your inferior feelings will vanish.

If he feels bad because he is inferior, the cure is to make himself as good as everybody else, and the way to feel really good is to make himself superior. This striving for superiority gets him into more trouble, causes more frustration, and sometimes brings about a neurosis where none existed before. He becomes more miserable than ever, and "the harder he tries," the more miserable he becomes.

Others judge you for not what you are, but what they are. Self Judgement is thus more Significant....

Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.

And it was true that if you categorized people by which Disney character they were, then Jonah would always be Bambi. Motherless, graceful, unobtrusive. Ethan--Jiminy Cricket, the annoying little conscience... just look at Ash. In the Disney hierarchy she was Snow White... He paused to wonder which Disney character Jules was, and realized that Disney did not make women or girls or woodland animals that were like her.

The Ishtar of cartoons," wrote the Reporter. Every failure was the Ishtar of something

Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?

Don't take this personally, Kit, but your hands are really big. Did you hassle steer?" "No steer," I say. "Only small-handed men.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

No matter how hard you worked, there was always going to be somebody out there who thought you were fuckup.

Still staring at the woman in the mirror, I hung up the phone. She looked as if she was going to cry. I felt bad for her, that woman with the dark hair, the one who only ever wore black and white. The one who might have been pretty if she'd only take care of herself, if only she weren't smarter, if only she didn't earn more money. I felt sorry for her but envied her, too, because she, at least, could cry and I could not.

He's got a pointy bald head, and too much flesh hanging around his neck. The resulting combination gives him an unlikely yet striking resemblance to an uncircumcised penis. I secretly call him Rumpelforeskin.

Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity.

A nagging thought: What did I have to show for all that free time the mothers didn't have?

How to describe intermittent severe pain on the same scale as constant middle-range pain, which I found more debilitating?

A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!

Ducks are sweet, crows are intelligent; but I prefer dolphins because they are both sweet and intelligent.

Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!