#ear

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#materialism #want #yearning #jealousy

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#heartbreak #jealousy #love #sadness #wonder

love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#jealousy

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear? ↗

— F. Paul Wilson

#hate #jealousy #racism #war #jealousy

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice. ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#antipathy #enemies #envy #heart #human-nature

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115 ↗

— Mary Shelley

#leadership #learning #leadership

Be a great student of life, so you can be an outstanding teacher of living. ↗

— Hasheem Francis

#learning-process #life #mentor #student #leadership

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #opportunity #life

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#life

I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma had finally made her way around and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder. ↗

— Jennifer Salaiz

#heartbreak #jennifer-salaiz #karma #life #sadness