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“If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy or resentment. ... Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder?”

Ifs Men States Night Hate Asks Wonder Steps Crime Committed Envy Resentment Overwhelmed Starry Night State Of Wonder

Author:Jacob Needleman

“Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.”

Needs Turns Wonder Hatred Active Envy Passive Displeasure

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.”

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.”

Children Character Parent Wonder Strange Envy Egotism Offspring Perversity

Author:William Hazlitt

“I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.”

People Looks Wonder Envy Sunset Vacation Grotesque

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.”

Play Wonder Ultimate Envy Drummer

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.”

People Thinking Knows Way Feels Mind Heart Doe Has Beens Might Suffering Born Imagination Wonder Exercise Bounds Refuse Envy Monsters Nightmare Scream Fewer Peers Cages Heart And Mind Tempted

Author:J. K. Rowling