Famous Quotes

"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Saint Augustine on Jealousy

More quotes about Jealousy

• "Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"

  Bob Marley on Jealousy

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

  Robert A. Heinlein on Jealousy

• "I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do."

  Heidi Klum on Jealousy

• "Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy."

  Aristotle on Jealousy

• "Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."

  Johannes Brahms on Jealousy

More quotes by Saint Augustine

• "What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

• "Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."

• "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

• "Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."

• "Love is the beauty of the soul."