#jealousy

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. ↗

— Bette Midler

#happiness #humor #inspirational #jealousy #success

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#jealousy #love #humor

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. ↗

— Antisthenes

#away #consumed #eaten #envious #iron

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. ↗

— Ludovico Ariosto

#deliver #frenzy #good #good lord #heresy

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#bride #corpse #ever #good #good wishes

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#catches #down #first #humbled #jealousy

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

Jealousy is the grave of affection. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#affection #grave

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#abject #ambitious #believed #envious #humble