A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies, a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

Anna Deavere Smith

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

William Shakespeare

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

Benjamin Whichcote

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