Postmodernism

What is Postmodernism? There are many different ways that the term sustainable has been applied and defined. Postmodernism is a philosophy that says absolute truth does not exist. Mostly general and wide-ranging term applies to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality.

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
Jim Jarmusch

“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.”
Harold Pinter

“Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.”
David Foster Wallace, Girl With Curious Hair

“Isn’t post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus?”
John Leonard

“This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products”
Larry McCaffrey

“We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything so as you do not claim it a better way. Religiously, you can hold to anything, so long as you do not bring Jesus Christ into it. If a spiritual idea is eastern, it is granted critical immunity; if western, it is thoroughly criticized. Thus, a journalist can walk into a church and mock its carryings on, but he or she dare not do the same if the ceremony is from eastern fold. Such is the mood at the end of the twentieth century. A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling. But that is precisely what I believe postmodernism best represents – a mood.”
Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn’t — not because it’s optimistic, but because it can’t take ideals seriously in the first place. The prevailing attitude is Absurdism. A postmodern magazine may be irreverent, but not bitterly irreverent, for it’s not purposefully irreverent; its aim is indiscriminate, because everyone is equally ridiculous. And anyway, there’s no moral basis for passing judgment. Just sit back and enjoy the show.”
Robert Wright, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Postmodernism is when you don’t know exactly what is truth and what is not, but you shouldn’t care about.

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Water Quotes

What is a waterto all of us? It’s not only H2O but it’s just a life. Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Water is the driver of Nature.
– Leonardo da Vinci

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
– Jacques Cousteau

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.
– Laura Gilpin – From The Rio Grande, 1949

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty
if it were surrounded by water.
– Jan Erik Vold, What All The World Knows, 1970

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever
mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a
gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its
innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
– Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944), The Madwomen of Chaillot, 1946

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
– Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1746

High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political
slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time,
is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. Of all our planet’s
activities–geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the
disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind) — no force
is greater than the hydrologic cycle.
– Richard Bangs and Christian Kallen, Rivergods, 1985

Between earth and earth’s atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never
a drop more, never a drop less.
This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.
– Linda Hogan, “Northern Lights,” Autumn 1990

Filthy water cannot be washed.
– West African Proverb

If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in one
fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health by improving
environmental quality.
– William C. Clark, speech, Racine, Wisconsin, April 1988

In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has already passed through fishes,
trees, bacteria, worms in the soil, and many other organisms, including people. . .
Living systems cleanse water and make it fit, among other things, for human consumption.
– Elliot A. Norse, in R.J. Hoage, ed., Animal Extinctions, 1985

Estuaries are a happy land, rich in the continent itself, stirred by the forces of nature
like the soup of a French chef; the home of myriad forms of life from bacteria and
protozoans to grasses and mammals; the nursery, resting place, and refuge of
countless things.
– Stanely A. Cain, speech, 1966

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.
– Isaac Aasimov, Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

The oceans are the planet’s last great living wilderness, man’s only remaining frontier on
earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.
– John L. Cullney, “Wilderness Conservation,” September-October 1990

The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and
stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed
by man.
– Charles William Beebe (1877-1962), Log of the Sun, 1906

Wetlands have a poor public image. . . Yet they are among the earth’s greatest natural
assets. . . mankind’s waterlogged wealth.
– Edward Maltby, Waterlogged Wealth, 1986

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and
cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever
is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
– Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
– Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798

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Khalil Gibran

Gibran Khalil Gibran was burn 6 January, 1883, Bsharri, Ottoman Empire (now Lebanon)
Died in 10 April, 1931, New York City, United States.
Nationality – Lebanese American.
He had not formal education, but learnt from priests in his childhood. Started school in Boston with special English school then studied art in Paris with Auguste Rodin.
Occupation – Poet, artist, writer
Religion – Christian

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.”

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you, but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may house their bodies, but not souls.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; for even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”

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Yoga Quotes

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. ~Sharon Gannon

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner and co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union – the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions. ~B.K.S. Iyengar, Astadala Yogamala

Tree pose grows confidence. ~Terri Guillemets

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~Krishnamacharya

For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. ~Terri Guillemets

Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you’re forced down. ~Terri Guillemets

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that’s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it’s unequaled. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Before you’ve practiced, the theory is useless. After you’ve practiced, the theory is obvious. ~David Williams, an Ashtanga yoga teacher in Maui, Hawaii, quoted from yoga.com

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Angel Mother

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one”
Jill Churchill quotes

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm quotes

Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young.

A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.
Helen Rice quotes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Elizabeth Stone
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aeschylus
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Washington Irving
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Abraham Lincoln
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

Henry Ward Beecher
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

George Washington
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

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Women are always beautiful

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. ~Marianne Williamson, “A Woman’s Worth”

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. ~Cindy Crawford

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ~Laurence J. Peter

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton

The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde

There’s something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. ~Harold Robbins

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute. ~Author Unknown

Men get laid, but women get screwed. ~Quentin Crisp

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. ~Germaine Greer

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ~Ovid

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Umberto Eco Quotes

Another my favorite is Umberto Eco – an Italian novelist and philosopher, professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and certainly one of the most interest authors of the twentieth century. His Foucault’s Pendulum (1989) is one of my my most loved books.

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ”

“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ”

“Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it’s real and you’re not to blame.”

“You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.”

“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die.”

“Saint Anselm’s ontological argument is moronic, for example. God must exist because I can conceive Him as being perfect in all ways, including existence. The saint confuses existence in thought with existence in reality.”(56)”

“What did I really think fifteen years ago? As a nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can’t hurt, and you might get better.”

“And I began to question everything around me: the houses, the shop signs, the clouds in the sky, and the engravings in the library, asking them to tell me not their superficial story but another, deeper story, which they surely were hiding–but finally would reveal thanks to the principle of mystic resemblances.”

“The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that’s why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it’s hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus.”

“ever since the days of Aristotle, we have been trying to define things based on their essence. The definition of man? An animal that acts in a deliberate way. Now, it took naturalists 80 years to come up with a definition of a platypus. They found it endlessly difficult to describe the essence of this animal. It lives underwater and on land; it lays eggs, and yet it’s a mammal. So what did that definition look like? It was a list, a list of characteristics.”

“…these are now people lost in a maze: some choose one path, some another; some shout for help, and there’s no telling if the replies they hear are other [lost] voices or the echo of their own…”

“Taken literally, these texts were a pile of absurdities, riddles, contradictions.”

“I have understood. And the certainty that there is nothing to understand should be my peace, my triumph.”

“‘Listen, Jacopo, I thought of a good one: Urban Planning for Gypsies.’
‘Great,’ Belbo said admiringly. ‘I have one, too: Aztec Equitation.’
‘Excellent. But would that go with Potio-section or the Anynata?’
‘We’ll have to see.’ Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. ‘Potio-section…’ He looked at me, saw my bewilderment. ‘Potio-section, as everybody knows, is the art of slicing soup. No, no,’ he said to Diotallevi……”

“But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

“If you fill the world with children who do not bear your name, no one will know they are yours. Like being God in plain clothes. You are God, you wander through the city, you hear people talking about you, God this, God that, what a wonderful universe this is, and how elegant the law of gravity, and you smile to yourself behind your fake beard (no, better to go without a beard, because in a beard God is immediately recognizable). You soliloquize (God is always soliloquizing): “Here I am, the One, and they don’t know it.” If a pedestrian bumps into you in the street, or even insults you, you humbly apologize and move on, even though you’re God and with a snap of your fingers can turn the world to ashes. But, infinitely powerful as you are, you can afford to be long-suffering.”

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Translation is the art of failure.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

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Milan Kundera Quotes

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Solitude: sweet absence of faces.
Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side… nudity is a shroud.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

How goodness heightens beauty!

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

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Fools and Wise

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

Who are a little wise the best fools be.
John Donne

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin Franklin

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Balthasar Gracian

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men — and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even a fool may be wise after the event.
Homer

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
Nikolai Lenin

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Unknown

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Unknown

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
Oscar Hammerstein II

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
John Dalberg Acton

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Love and Jealousy

Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.  ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Never waste jealousy on a real man:  it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.  ~George Bernard Shaw

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.  ~Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957

He that is not jealous is not in love.  ~St. Augustine

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.  ~Josh Billings

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.  ~Harold Coffin

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.  ~Elizabeth Bowen

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.  ~Spanish Proverb

I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart.  ~Astrid Alauda

Calamities are of two kinds:  misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.  ~Ambrose Bierce

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food.  A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.  ~Maya Angelou

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.  ~Antisthenes

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.  ~Mme. de Puixieux

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.  ~A.R. Orage

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.  ~George Eliot

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.  ~Honore de Balzac

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.  ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man:
Men will sometimes jealous be,
Though but little cause they see.
~Thomas Campion, “Never Love”

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse:  envy alone wants both.  ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
~William Shakespeare, Othello

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.  ~Dorothy Dix

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.  ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.  ~Aeschylus

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
~William Shakespeare, Othello

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

Envy assails the noblest:  the winds howl around the highest peaks.  ~Ovid

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.  ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.  ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.  ~Paul Eldridge

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.  ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.  ~Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.  ~Danish Proverb

Envy slays itself by its own arrows.  ~Author Unknown

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.  ~William Shakespeare

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