1. Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.
2. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
3. 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 it's 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 the 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.
4. Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
5. Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
6. Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
7. Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
8. Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
9. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
10 Jealousy is the grave of affection.
11. Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
12. Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
13. Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
14. Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
15. Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
