Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
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Jodi Picoult
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
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Bill Watterson
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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Aeschylus
She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free...
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Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
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Peter S. Beagle
More Quotes By Anna Godbersen
Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things thenleave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
Girls, " their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.
