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There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is sprouting, and fermenting the second group and roasting the first group. – Amit Ray	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. – Iris Murdoch	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. – John Dryden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When Jealousy consumes us, we are it dish of the Day. (Jalousie nous dévore. Nous sommes son plat du jour) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 12 years ago
In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy. – Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. – Paul Eldridge	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others. – Alexandre Dumas	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. – David Seabury	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them. – Melaine Rawn, "Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on. – William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3	added by anonymous 13 years ago
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. – William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. – Jean de la Bruyere	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. – Robert Anson Heinlein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good. – Swami Vivekananda	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. – Erica Jong	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There's no jealousy in the grave. – Rudyard Kipling	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. – Salvador Dali	added by anonymous 14 years ago
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. – H. G. Wells	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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