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We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there? — John McLeod
To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have… — Carl Jung
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always… — Baron de Montesquieu
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot… — Solomon
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing… — Diogenes
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable.… — Roger L'Estrange
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to:… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;-… — Thaddeus Golas
The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high… — Charlie Munger
"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make… — Alexandra David-Neel
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse,… — Alexander Pope
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for… — John Steinbeck
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to… — Gautama Buddha
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful. — Baba Amte
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare… — Leon Trotsky

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