J Quotes
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“Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.”
“Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“Jealousy seems to make me suffer in the most unexpected ways.”
Source: Revenge
“Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.”
“Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.”
“Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are.”
“Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.”
Source: Tear You Apart
“Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.”
“Jealousy still gave him a pang. The heart was a stupid thing.”
Source: Inkspell
“Jealousy stings,
envy poisons,
anger burns,
and hatred murders.
Peace heals,
laughter remedies,
joy cures,
and love restores.”
“Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders.”
“Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.”
“Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart.”
Source: The Vorbing
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
“Jealousy throws a spanner in the work of our own progress, better to curb your jealousy".”
“Jealousy was a brutal player in the game of love and it often brought on brutal actions from those whom it teamed up with.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“Jealousy was a fat, chalk-white snake in his chest. It writhed slowly, as pure as innocence and childishly plain.
Replaceable. He was... replaceable.”
“Jealousy was as suffocating as it sounded. It felt as if there was something tightening around my chest, similar to anger, yet disconnected in wraps of desperation and anguish I couldn't comprehend.”
“Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.”
Source: The Interestings
“Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how strong a feeling of jealousy is in dogs, it would probably be exhibited by infants at any earlier age than just specified if they were tried in a fitting manner”
Source: Charles Darwin: An Anthology
“Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.”
“Jealousy will get you nowhere.”
Source: The Book of Bera
“Jealousy will hit you like a ton of bricks when you have a scarcity mentality.”
Source: The Unfolding: A Journey of Involution
“Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.”
“Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.”
“Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . .”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.”
“Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.”
“jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.”
Source: The other side
“Jealousy, the old worm that bites.”
Source: The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon
“Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.”
Source: The male ego
“Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.”
Source: Sleeping Murder, The Murder at the Vicarage
“Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.”
Source: Humans of New York
“Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”
“Jealousy’s a weak emotion.”
“Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.”
“Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.”
“Jean and I had, as I think a great many best friends have, a secret make-believe world of our own. We had only to say, 'Let's be Lilian and Diana,' and, as though it was a magical formula, step straight into a world that was as real to us as the world of school and parents and cornflakes for breakfast. . . .
In the summer after my father retired, Jean came to stay with me in North Devon. On the first morning, we retired to the rustic summerhouse. 'Let's be Lilian and Diana . . .'
But the magic formula no longer worked. We tried and tried; but we could only _act_ Lilian and Diana; we could not _be_ them any more. I suppose the break had been too long, and we were just too old. We went on trying for days, searching for the way in. But it was like searching for the lost door to a lost country. Finally, without anything actually being said between us, we gave up and turned to other things. But with Lilian and Diana, something of Jean and Rosemary had gone too: left behind the lost door to the lost country. It was one of the saddest experiences of my young life.”
Source: Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
“Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.”
“Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space.”
“Jean didn't even hesitate. "That ill-bred child is not my friend.”
“Jean Grey, the Phoenix... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.”
“Jean grinned down at her, and she handed him something in a small silk bag.
'What's this?'
'Lock of my hair, ' she said. 'Meant to give it to you days ago, but we got busy with all the raiding. You know. Piracy. Hectic life. '
'Thank you, love, ' he said.
'Now, if you find yourself in trouble wherever you go, you can hold up that little bag to whoever's bothering you, and you can say, "You have no idea who you're fucking with. I'm under the protection of the lady who gave me this object of her favour. "'
'And that's supposed to make them stop?'
'Shit no, that's just to confuse them. Then you kill them while they're standing there looking at you funny.”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Jean-Guy Beauvoir hadn't much seen the use of libraries, though he'd never have said that to Annie or her parents, who saw les biblioteques as sacred places.
He hadn't grown up going to one, and now, with the internet and easy access to information, he couldn't imagine why libraries still existed. That is, until he'd gone with Annie and Honore to a children's hour at their local library. He'd seen the wonder in his son's eyes as the librarian read to them.
He'd seen Honore's excitement at getting to choose books himself to take out. How he clutched them to his chest, as though he could read with his heart.
Through his infant son, Jean-Guy discovered that libraries held treasures. Not just the written word, but things that couldn't be seen.”
Source: The Madness of Crowds
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a fenced-in lack of freedom. The Australian Aborigines are the exception, though. They managed to maintain a fenceless civilization until the seventeenth century. They’re dyed-in-the-wool free. They go where they want, when they want, doing what they want. Their lives are a literal journey. Walkabout is a perfect metaphor for their lives. When the English came and built fences to pen in their cattle, the Aborigines couldn’t fathom it. And, ignorant to the end of the principle at work, they were classified as dangerous and antisocial and were driven away, to the outback. So I want you to be careful. The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Jean Jacques Rousseau resumió todo en su novela Emilio, la biblia de los sentimientos del siglo XVIII.Rousseau sostenía que cuando buscaba las normas de la conducta en la vida, las encontró en lo más recóndito de su corazón, delineadas por la naturaleza en caracteres que nada puede borrar. Solo he de consultarme a mi mismo en relación con lo que quiero hacer; lo que siento que es bueno, es bueno, lo que siento que es malo, es malo.”
Source: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.”
“Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration.”
“Jean Louise ayakta tek başına durmuyordu, onu arkadan destekleyen bir şey vardı: Hayatındaki en etkin, en güçlü manevi destek; babasının sevgisi. Bunu hiç sorgulamadı, üzerine hiç kafa yormadı, önemli bir karar almadan önce, bilinçaltından gayri ihtiyari 'Atticus olsa ne yapardı?' sorusunun geçtiğini bile fark etmedi; ayakları yere sağlam basmasını, dimdik durmasını her seferinde sağlayanın babası olduğunu, kişiliğinde düzgün ve yüksek not almaya değer ne varsa, oraya babası tarafından konulduğunu hiç ayrımsamadı; babasına taptığını hiç bilmedi.
Tek bildiği, onlara şunu bunu vermedikleri, onları şu şu konuda kandırdıkları için ebeveynlerine sövüp sayan yaşıtlarına acıdığıydı. Bir sürü ruhsal çözümlemenin ardından korkularının, kaygılarının nedeninin sahip oldukları şeyler olduğunu keşfeden orta yaşlı ev kadınlarına acıyordu; babalarından Bizim İhtiyar diye bahseden, onların çapsız, büyük olasılıkla içkici, çocuklarını bir noktada fena halde ve bağışlanamaz biçimde hüsrana uğratan, yetersiz yaratıklar olduğunu ima eden kişilere üzülüyordu.
Acımak konusunda savurgan, o rahat, sıcacık dünyasında kendinden memnundu.”
Source: Go Set a Watchman