Jealousy quotes [that I find agreeable and true]

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw

In jealousy there is more self-love than love. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

Envy is a waste of time. ~Author Unknown

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ~Baltasar Gracian

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ~Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese

He that is not jealous is not in love. ~St. Augustine

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ~Josh Billings

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~Elizabeth Bowen

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb

I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. ~Astrid Alauda

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ~Ambrose Bierce

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. ~Jennifer James

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. ~Maya Angelou

Jealousy is the great exaggerator. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783

Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. ~Mme. de Puixieux

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. ~A.R. Orage

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot

[T]he ear of jealousy heareth all things. ~The Bible (Apocrypha), Wisdom of Solomon 1:10

Jealousy is a crutch. ~C. Astrid Weber

Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. ~Leslie Grimutter

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is ignorance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ~Honore de Balzac

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man:
Men will sometimes jealous be,
Though but little cause they see.
~Thomas Campion, "Never Love"

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
~William Shakespeare, Othello

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. ~Dorothy Dix

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. ~Mark Twain

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ~Aeschylus

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
~William Shakespeare, Othello

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. ~Elizabeth O'Connor

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. ~Ovid

A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ~Paul Eldridge

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

Jealousy... is a mental cancer. ~B.C. Forbes

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb

Envy slays itself by its own arrows. ~Author Unknown

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. ~William Shakespeare

Some days..

.. all you need is one calm voice telling you that everything is going to be okay.

In a world of confusion, I finally found someone who can make sense of my life for me. If I have a problem, I can run to them, and they'll listen intently, and then explain to me the best way to go about is, as well as give me reasons as to why it may happen. They've explained things better than I've ever heard even an expert explain things. They are the best listener I know, and they're always there for me, whenever I've needed to call them.

Two months of worrying about this relationship.. and all I need is one thirty-minute conversation with them, and suddenly every doubt disappears, and I'm reassured that things are going to work out.

I've found the best friend I could ever ask for. :)

Someday soon we'll get nostalgic for disaster..

"I feel like it's God's will." -- cop out or the truth?

In my case.. I'm really not sure.

I've been feeling a pull towards a certain decision for about three weeks now, but I'm afraid to go through with it. I don't know if God's trying to tell me to let something go in order to gain something greater.. or if it's just me being psycho. It would make sense that it's God, because usually He asks us to make great leaps of faith in order to receive great blessings.. and this would be a rather large leap of faith for me.. but then it doesn't make sense because I feel like He's blessed me so richly, and I don't know why.. I just don't know. God hardly ever answers why.. and I really wish He did.

I really wish He'd give me some guidance.

If there are qualities in a person.. very small, minute qualities.. that you would not want in a future spouse.. do you ignore them.. try to change them.. or break up with them?

Or do you simply not care in the slightest.. not form an attachment.. or not get into that situation?

Or are you like me.. and just floundering about, hoping the problem will go away, wondering how my life would be different, worrying about the future, and praying for a miracle?

"Ought to be a side show act for freaks like me; yeah, I could be the star of the show with my name on the marquee. In a room with a big red button that says 'Do Not Touch,' and twice a day I'd mash it down, and you could watch me self-destruct."