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

Margaret Atwood

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Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

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

Robert A. Heinlein

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustav Flaubert

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.

Drop ego and listen. Empathize.

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