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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Jean Vanier.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Related topics: Inspirational
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
Let Today be a Thanksgiving.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Let Go, Let God.
- Anonymous
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Let it be.
- Paul McCartney
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound -
so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
Breathe and let be.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Let us swim together in the ocean of our being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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