Found a few interesting quotes online. Some are easy to understand while some, you may need some time to decipher what they really mean.
To me, envy is sort of a disease... and am not too sure if it is curable. One has to seek his/her own solution on how to overcome this sometimes infectious disease.
Interesting quotes:
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
True...very true.. maksudnya, diri sendiri tak bersyukur dengan apa yang the person already have.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin
Again, we have to reflect on ourselves and be grateful with what we already have. What we don't have? Well, fix our own goal and target to achieve or obtain the things that we want to have in future. That is how we can push ourselves further and make ourselves better. The feeling that we get once we achieve something, for instance buying your first car using your own money.. the feeling is priceless!
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont
People will always envy the person that has the most or the best...or the prettiest..or the smartest..or the most loved by everyone else. But sometimes we can turn this feeling into something positive. Maksudnya, we will try to change ourselves for the better for example, we will study harder to achieve what that person has achieved. So if we do it right, envy can also be a positive thing. Use that to push ourselves further and to achieve greater and better things.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
This does not need further elaboration..very straightforward and easy to understand.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
Yes, envy is a praise to the person that we are envious of... If ada orang envy kat kita, remember to say Alhamdulillah and smile :)
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