" The worst part of success
is
trying to find someone who is happy for you"
- Bette Midler
The Bard of Avon William Shakespeare in his famous play Hamlet scripts these memorable words
" So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
it spills itself in fearing to be spilt"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld could not have put it better when he said,
"Jealousy contains more of self love than love"
Robert. A Heinlein counselled and shone the light on the personality of the person with these words,
" A competent and self confident person
is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."
The Tamil saint poet Thiruvalluvar cautioned
" Fame is a jealous mistress and will brook no rival"
The all time ambitious Alexander the Great highlighted the norm of jealousy in these words,
" Heaven cannot brook two suns nor earth two masters"
Germaine Greer held a view that
" Man is jealous because of his amour propre;
woman is jealous because of her lack of it"
Jennifer James gave an indepth analysis in these words,
" Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value.
Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point that
others will be preferred and rewarded more than you.
There is only one alternative - self value.
If you cannot love yourself,
you will not believe that you are loved.
You will always think its a mistake or luck.
Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within.
Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all your energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy,
and
you can remember the pain and reach out to them"
Thus, while jealousy is a disease one has to get over, the way it is presented normally has been captured in this image
The life lesson of not to be jealous, overcome jealousy as well as to deal with jealousy of others is the Life Lesson in Quotes - Jealousy for the A to Z series.
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