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Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus 
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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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
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
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
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
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
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)
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
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 only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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
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
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
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
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
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
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
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
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
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let's Roll.
- Todd Beamer
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- 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
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Let it be.
- Paul McCartney
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger,
regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue.
Let go of the need for approval.
- Lama Surya Das
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let Today be a Thanksgiving.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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