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Quotes About Comparison

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!
~ Marie Corelli
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
~ Horace
Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.
~ Diana Peterfreund
We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.
~ Samuel Johnson
The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.
~ Jean Plaidy
If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would've changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.
~ Charbel Tadros
If you want to make people angry. Be Happy. It's sad that people cant stand when others are happy inlife. It really says a lot about them.
~ De philosopher DJ Kyos
The only difference between a happy and an unhappy person is that the former values what he has and the latter always values what he hasn't
~ EverSkeptic
Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.
~ Renata Adler, Speedboat
Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?
~ William Steig, The Real Thief
. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!
~ Matt Groening
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
~ Jeph Jacques
There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can't also get from vegetables and fruit.
~ Melissa Hartwig
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.
~ Donald Berwick
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
~ Quentin Crisp
In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.
~ Chris Espinosa
There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook ... Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.
~ Michael Heseltine