Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.
The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.
Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.
Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.
You have to know what you want and keep going for it.
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.
My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day. Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.