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Envy is a feeling of wanting to have what someone else has  

• Envy: A desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to someone else. Oxford Dictionary
• Envy: The feeling of wanting to have what someone else has.  Merriam Webster
• Envy: A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck.  Oxford Dictionary
• Jealousy,  Contentment,  Let go of the need to compare,  Resentment

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Envy is based on desire, jealousy is based on fear  

• Envy is the emotion when you want a possession someone else has. Jealousy is the emotion when you fear you may be replaced in the affection of someone you love or desire.  com
• Envy is a desire to possess what someone else has. Jealousy is the fear that what you possess will be taken from you. diffen.com
• Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous. Bauvard
• Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy’s when you also don’t want them to have it. Kirsten Hubbard
• Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. Aristotle
• Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. William Shenstone
• The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything. Curt Goetz
• Desire,  Jealousy,  Fear

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Envy effects everyone, irrespective of wealth and status  

• Envy assails the noblest; the wind howls round the highest peaks. Ovid
• Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.  Henry Parry Liddon
• Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. Bertrand Russell
• If envy were a ringworm, we would all have scabs. Mexican Proverb

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We often envy the good fortunes of others, including our friends  

• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.  Ambrose Bierce
• It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus
• Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck. Scott Fitzgerald
• Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend’s success without envy. Aeschylus
• The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends. Evan Esar

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Envy is a lack of recognition and appreciation of your own gifts  

• Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. William Hazlitt
• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. Harold Coffin
• Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. Jean Vanier  
• When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there’s no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn’t fit me. William P. Smith
• Envy is ignorance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There be three usual causes of ingratitude upon a benefit received – envy, pride, and covetousness; envy, looking more at other’s benefits than our own; pride, looking more at ourselves than at the benefit; covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. Joseph Hall
• Appreciation,  Envy

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Envy is a lack of recognition of your own worth  

• Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Dr Samuel Johnson
• Those who envy admit their inferiority. Latin proverb
• A show of envy is an insult to oneself. Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
• Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.  Elizabeth O’Connor
• Self-worth

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Envy therefore wastes and negates who you are  

• To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. Sven Goran Eriksson
• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. Marilyn Monroe
• Envy is an insult to oneself. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• Don’t underestimate your worth by comparing yourself with others. Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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Envy distorts and exaggerates what it sees  

• Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form. Norman Macdonald
• Envy generally admires and abhors out of proportion. Edward Counsel
• jealousy! Thou magnifier of trifles. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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Envy loves to detract from valid virtues and achievements  

• Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it’s by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence. Vanna Bonta
• When men are full of envy, they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
• Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue. Titus Livy
• When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers. Evan Esar
• A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men’s minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others’ evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another’s virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another’s fortune. Francis Bacon
• Virtue

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Envy can bring out your very worst qualities  

• Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate. Henry Abbey
• Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. Ovid
• Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. Mignon McLaughlin
• Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. Angus Wilson
• Envy, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. Ambrose Bierce
• Envy is like a fly that passes all the body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. Arthur Chapman

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Envy feeds moral indignation  

• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells
• There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm

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At its worst, envy can turn to a kind of hate  

• Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate. Henry Abbey
• Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. Theodore Roosevelt
• Hate

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Envy makes you pay a heavy price  

• Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Charles Caleb Colton

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Envy turns the happiness of others into your mental torment …  

• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Baltasar Gracián
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Heraclitus
• He who envies me, makes my virtue his vice, and my happiness his torment. Hooker
• Take heed you harbour not that vice call’d Envy, lest another’s happiness be your torment, and God’s blessing become your curse. Wellins Calcott
• Envy is its own tormentor. Andrada
• Envy is a sickness growing from other men’s happiness. Aurelius
• Unhappiness

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… and thereby destroys your own happiness and peace of mind  

• I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind…It is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind. Ecclesiastes
• Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. Buddha  
• One of the greatest causes of unhappiness is that we over-estimate the happiness of others.
• You can’t be envious and happy at the same time. Frank Tyger  
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. François de La Rochefoucauld
• Envy and jealousy, twin sisters, come with the cunning of the fox to steal away our peace and happiness. Nicias Ballard Cooksey

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Envy clogs up the heart and soul  

• Envy is the ulcer of the soul. Socrates
• Envy eats nothing but its own heart. German Proverb
• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. Honoré de Balzac
• The soul,  The heart

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Envy feasts its eyes but leaves you starving  

• Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. Spanish Proverb
• The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour. Horace
• Envy feasts its eyes and leaves you starving. Graeme Myburgh
• Envy eats nothing but its own heart. German Proverb
• An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Socrates

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Envy makes you old before your time  

• Envy and wrath shorten the life. Ecclesiastes 30:24
• Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. Thomas Browne  

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Envy shoots at others and wounds itself  

• Envy shoots at others and wounds itself. English Proverb
• It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. Charley Reese
• In the sea of malice envy frequently gets out of her depth; and whilst she is expecting to see another drowned, she is either drowned herself or dashed against a rock. Giovanni Battista Basile

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Envy burns like hot coals …  

• If envy would burn, there would be no need for wood. Serbian Proverb
• Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from hell. Philip James Bailey
• Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. Livy

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… and like a fire, can destroy and consume  

• Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood. Muhammad
• As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. Saint John Chrysostom
• As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. Antisthenes
• There was never envy that was not bloody: for if it eats not another’s heart, it will eat our own. Joseph Hall
• If envy, like anger, did not burn itself in its own fire, and consume and destroy those persons it possesses, before it can destroy those it wishes worst to, it would set the whole world on fire, and leave the most excellent persons the most miserable. Earl of Clarendon

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Envy is nothing short of wretched misery  

• Envy stalks on with sullen step; her face is pallid and her body emaciated; her eye never looks straight before her: her teeth are brown with rust; her breast overflows with gall, and from her tongue drips drops of poison; she never smiles except when the wretched weep; nor does she enjoy rest; ever kept moving by her sleepless cares, she sees with evil eye the success of men, and pines away as she beholds; she distresses others, and is herself distressed, and bears her own tormentor in her breast. Ovid
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Envy is the only vice that gives absolutely no pleasure at all  

• Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all. Joseph Epstein
• Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse; but envy wants both; we should strive against it, for if indulged in, it will be to us as a foretaste of hell upon earth. Robert Burton

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To add final insult to injury, envy is a waste of energy and achieves nothing  

• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. Honore de Balzac
• Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Baz Luhrmann
• How can we explain the perpetuity of envy, a vice which yields no return? Balzac
• Envy never enriched any man. Montgomery
• Energy,  Waste,   

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Therefore, be determined to transcend envy  

• If envy is rankling in your bosom, declare war against it at once; a war of extermination; no truce, no treaty, no compromise. Like the pirate on the high seas, it is an outlaw, an enemy to all mankind, and should be hung up at the yard arm until it is dead. Levi Carroll Judson
• Transcendence

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To transcend envy, nurture gratitude for what you have  

• The eradication of envy: gratitude. Giannina Braschi
• Gratitude

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To transcend envy, stop comparing yourself with others  

• Comparison is a slippery slop to envy and for the most part, envy wastes energy that could be put towards getting what you want or optimizing what you have. Danielle LaPorte
• Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune.  Envy no one, and you need envy no one. William Hazlitt
• Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. Francis Bacon, Sr.
• The more social comparison you do, the more likely you are to be affected by it, and the direction of such effects tends to be negative. Barry Schwartz
• The research shows that the happier the person, the less attention she pays to how others around her are doing. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. Steve Furtick
• Don’t underestimate your worth by comparing yourself with others. Jaachynma N.E. Agu
• Let go of the need to compare

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To transcend envy, consciously celebrate the success of others for lets abundance flow into your life  

• Abundance consists not only in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. John Selden
• The only cure for envy is to look upon the prosperity of the envied person as belonging to one’s self. Dionysius
• If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.  Brian Tracy
• Bless those who are finding abundance. And in your blessing of them and their abundance, you will become abundant too. Abraham-Hicks
• Never begrudge someone else’s good fortune. Acknowledge it and feel good about it, for it is proof that it can be done. Look for and acknowledge success everywhere you can. John Kehoe
• The more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well- being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to…rather than detracts from…our lives. Stephen Covey
• The truth is that there’s more than enough good to go around. There’s more than enough creative ideas. There’s more than enough power. There’s more than enough love. There’s more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature. Rhonda Byrne
• That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Abraham Lincoln
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Transcending envy brings wonderful rewards  

• If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Glenn Clark
• Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. Peter S. Beagle

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Some argue envy can at times inspire some good  

• For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good. Sidney Greenberg
• In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people’s possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences. Christopher Hitchens

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Some argue that to be envied is a kind of flattery  

• Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. Anna Godberson
• Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise. John Gay
• To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied. Pindarus
• Better envy than pity. German Proverb

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• If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. Debbie Macomber
• To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends. Benjamin Franklin
• Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous. Bauvard
• Pain: an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of others. Ambrose Bierce  
• Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale. Montesquieu
• Congratulation: The civility of envy.  Ambrose Bierce
• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Susan Sonrag
• I envy people who drink – at least they know what to blame everything on.   Oscar Levant
• Jealousy : Wanting what someone has.  Envy is not wanting her to have it.  Shirley Conran
• Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.  Josh Billings
• Three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content and sufficient champagne. Dorothy Parker

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