#lousy

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#jealousy #jealousy

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival. ↗

— Thiruvalluvar

#greatness #jealousy #virtue #jealousy

When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition, envy, jealousy, playing God, or greed; or nonaggressive traits: withdrawal, anxiety, timidity, or absence of social graces. When any of these forces gains the upper hand, it is usually because of deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Yet the forces also create an intensity or tension that can give tremendous energy. ↗

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

#pyschology #jealousy

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always! ↗

— Marcel Proust

#love #jealousy

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#few people #find #god #i #lousy

I'm a lousy predictor of the future. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#i #lousy #predictor

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously. ↗

— Lope de Vega

#any #glory #great #greater #jealously

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy. ↗

— Pyreglide

#friendship #jealousy #friendship

If you project all source of hatred and jealousy, they will rebound on you with compound interest. ↗

— Indian

#jealousy

Why do people who already have so much get bitter about those who have a little more? ↗

— Dalya Moon

#jealousy