“Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'” FeelsHappensJobsJoyHeavenEmotionAttitudeHellCircumstancesGratitudeCompareReliefComparisonYou ChooseThieves Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse” PeopleIfsFeelsBelieveCoursesWishDifficultGratitudeIdealsCompareAccomplished Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or large, better than you. Remember at these times what you have rather than what you don't and be grateful]” PersonsRememberEnjoyGratitudeGratefulDisappointmentEnvyCompareBe GratefulBetter Than You Author:Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
“Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot with another's lest you see their advantages and lose the joy of what you already have.]” JoyLosesFireGratitudeAdvantageGravesCompareFlamesCoalVehement Author:Solomon
“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.” PeoplePersonsUsedPerspectiveGratitudeGratefulEnvyCompareIronRealisingBe GratefulDispositionInabilityEnviousRust Author:Diogenes
“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.” MindResultsSituationSadnessConditionsGratitudeEnvyMiserableCompareReliefFrustrationSomething Better Author:Roger L'Estrange
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.” FeelsLyingAttitudeParticularGratitudeGratefulCompareSomething BetterLet Down Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;- something better and you'll feel worse; something worse and you'll feel better.” WayFeelsGratitudeCompareFeel BetterSomething Better Author:Thaddeus Golas
“The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.” IfsWorldMomentsEnjoySecretGratitudeStandardsExpectationsGratefulCompareFlawsCherishExquisiteSingle MomSecret To HappinessHappy And Grateful Author:Charlie Munger
“"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."” FeelsStarsDogFashionGratitudeSkillsNegativeFeel GoodCompareGreat WorkNegative Experiences Author:Alexandra David-Neel
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However just remember and focus on the fact that your life could be much worse and be grateful it isn't. No matter what others or even you may briefly think you are lucky things aren't worse so be grateful.” ThinkingMayMatterFactsRememberFacesEnjoyFocusGratitudeLuckyNo Matter WhatGratefulCompareBe Grateful Author:Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
“All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!” LooksPersonsEyeGamesHabitGratitudeCompareReliefYellowSomething Better Author:Alexander Pope
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse.” GivingColdGratitudeSummerAppreciateGratefulWinterCompareWarmthContrastSweetnessCompare And Contrast Author:John Steinbeck
“The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.” IfsMindSourcePrideGratitudeEnvyCompareUnhappinessBitternessSomething BetterSource Of Happiness Author:Gautama Buddha
“Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.” FeelingsCreativeGratitudeActivityGratefulCompareFeeling HappyHappy And Grateful Author:Baba Amte
“Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.” PainPleasureParticularGratitudeSpringCompareConsideringPain And Pleasure Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.” FeelsKindMatterStatesConsciousnessDependsGratitudeGratefulPainfulComparePleasantEnvious Author:Arthur Schopenhauer