Envy
QUOTES
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We
plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives,
so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy
and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest
for all.
-- Dorothy Day
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"Peace
does not fare well where poverty and deprivation
reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance
and a lack of education and information. Repression,
injustice and exploitation are inimical with peace.
Peace is gravely threatened by inter-group fear
and envy and by the unleashing of unrealistic expectations.
Racial, class and religious intolerance and prejudice
are its mortal enemies."
-- Frederik W.
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The native American has been generally despised
by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade
the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of
luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his
life to share the fruits of his skill and success
with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept
his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity,
or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the
divine decree—a matter profoundly important to
him.
-- Charles Eastman
(Ohiyesa)
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Envy
is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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is a time in every man's education when he arrives
at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that
imitation is suicide; that he must take himself
for better for worse as his portion . . . It is
the harder because you will always find those
who think they know what is your duty better than
you know it. It is easy in the world to live after
the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to
live after our own; but the great man is he who
in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness
the independence of solitude.
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Five
enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition,
envy, anger, and pride;
if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy
perpetual peace.
-- Petrarch
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I
want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my
soul of rage before I'm through.
-- Paul Simon
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What
the Hiroshima survivors are telling us is that
no one else should ever go through the experience
they suffered. An atomic bombing creates a living
hell on Earth where the living envy the dead.”
-- Mayor Tadatoshi
Akiba
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