You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Margaret Atwood

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To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

That's how it seems to go: We're never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more than everyone else.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common - that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

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