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What we envy in others is actually a cue for us to become clearer about what we want to create for ourselves. We aren’t actually trying to say they don’t deserve that, but rather, I want to feel like I deserve that, too. Jealousy reveals our own self-suppression.
Brianna Wiest • When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
Jealousy is the sting of false hope. Even when you get that for which you are jealous—a beautiful girlfriend, fame, a man who truly loves you, great success—nothing essential changes. You are open or closed, various experiences come and go, everything gained is threatened by loss, and nothing is quite as fulfilling as your jealousy promises.
David Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
Jennifer Senior • It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
Envy occurs when we want something that another person has. Jealousy is when we fear losing a relationship or a valued part of a relationship that we already have.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Jealousy is always a mask for fear: fear that we aren’t able to get what we want; frustration that somebody else seems to be getting what is rightfully ours even if we are too frightened to reach for it. At its root, jealousy is a stingy emotion. It doesn’t allow for the abundance and multiplicity of the universe. Jealousy tells us there is room
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She could feel Margaret’s gaze haunting her. The blunt edge of her jealousy.