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I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”

“The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.”

It’s sad how some people are so jealous and intimidated by you that they only have negative things to say when they know absolutely nothing about you.

Jealousy—Tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another. ~Paul Chatfield

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Dear haters, don’t criticize me for my flaws and mistakes when you can’t even see your own.

Jealousy only eats up your beauty. Have more faith in yourself, you got something that other people don’t.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others– it only changes yours.”

“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.”

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Jealousy is the best compliment you can receive!

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

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

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.

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

A person hates you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They want to be you. 2) They hate themselves. 3) They see you as a threat.

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.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

“Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.”

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

A jealous woman does better research than the FBI.

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.

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

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

If someone has something bad to say about you, it’s probably because they have nothing good to say about themselves.

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

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

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

“Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth!”

When guys get jealous it can be kinda cute. When girls get jealous World War III is about to start.

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

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.

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

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Haters really don’t have their own lives actually. Why? Because they are so focused to live in yours.

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

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

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I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be split.”

Haters only hate the people they can’t have or the people they can’t be.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~William Penn

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Whatever you do, if you are successful, do not let the haters cut you. When you start bleeding, there will be hungry wolves out to come get you and will attempt to take your true talent.

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

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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Jealousy releases anger and anger is the greatest and the ultimate enemy that can forever determine your judgement and ultimately withhold your destiny.

Remember: people only rain on your parade because they’re jealous of your sun & tired of their shade.

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

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.

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

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

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

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

“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.”

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

Never hate people who are jealous of you, but respect their jealousy because they’re the ones who think you’re better than them.

Jealousy is the cousin of greed. We seem to focus on what we want and lose sight of what we really need.

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

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

You know you’re awesome when people you don’t even know hate you.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

“Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.”

I keep my head held high and smile, because there are people who will kill to see me fall.

Insecurity is an ugly thing, it makes you hate people you don’t even know.

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

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

“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”

Don’t think that someone else is more blessed than you are, because we are blessed in different ways.

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse:  envy alone wants both. 

A little jealousy in a relationship is healthy. Its always nice to know someones afraid to lose you.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”

Chances are that when someone is hating on you, it’s not about you at all. It’s about them. It’s their fear, their jealously, their boredom, and their insecurity.

Don’t think that someone else is more blessed than you are, because we are blessed in different ways.

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

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? – Sean Covey

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

People lie, things change, boyfriends cheat, friends ditch and there are always going to be those people who would kill to see you fall.

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