comparison

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. Oliver Stone

Never underestimate the power of jealousy

Jealousy blinds you to what you already have.

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle. Jon Acuff

Don’t compare your beginning

Success looks effortless when you arrive late to the story

Bob Smith died yesterday at the age of 74

Bob Smith died yesterday

Some things lose their meaning the moment we try to rank them

Feynmann and the pope story

The comparison trap: Let go of your need to compare

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the dangers of comparison and how it can steal our joy and happiness.…

There are only two people you need to impress

There are only two people you need to impress

We spend too much energy performing for the wrong audience

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

Comparison is the thief

Enough often stops feeling like enough after comparison.

Care what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu

Care what other people think?

The desire to be liked can become a form of captivity.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. Montesquieu; French Judge and Philosopher

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy

Happiness becomes harder when it becomes a contest.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not

Yesterday’s dream can become today’s expectation.

Not judging is another way of letting go of fear and experiencing love. When we learn not to judge others – and totally accept them, and not want to change them – we can simultaneously learn to accept ourselves. Gerald G. Jampolsky

Not judging is another way of letting go of fear and experiencing love

he standards we apply to others rarely stay there.