Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust. ...
by Mourning Dove
Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust.
- Mourning Dove
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Jealousy Sayings
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo
Child Sayings
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Adventure is the child of courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
The poet is one who is able to keep
the fresh vision of the child alive.
- Anais Nin
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Selfishness Sayings
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Distrust Sayings
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sad Sayings
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
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