Quotes About Comparison

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan have a lot in common - they're both smarter than their husbands and both consulted the stars for guidance, Nancy with astrology and Hillary with Barbra Streisand.

Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

Happiness is when you see your husband's old girlfriend and she's fatter than you.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.