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 J.C. Lillis
Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.
Don't be fooled into thinking that love is special. That it'll fill you up forever. Anyone can fall in love, but only you can make the art you were born for. And that's the kind of happiness that lasts.
Art doesn't depend on suffering. That's a crock. It's about discipline. Showing up to do the thing you do. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>It's about watching and listening to the world and telling the truth with your own voice. It's about learning from what other people make,...
I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.
Music is always the first thing I notice when I go someplace new.
