We Compare Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality…
— Alan Ball
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If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman…
— Peter Singer
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Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
— Bertrand Russell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who…
— David Niven
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If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent.…
— Max Levchin
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times…
— Jack Canfield
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Sometimes we miss happy because we're always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we're planning…
— Cathy Lamb
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Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The Lord doesn't expect us to work harder than we are able. He doesn't (nor should we) compare our efforts to those of others. Our…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited…
— Brené Brown
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The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
— Steven Furtick
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing…
— Iain McGilchrist
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All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
— Lynn Margulis
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Success can never be satisfied--for we compare ourselves to others.
— Senoraroy
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The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlights reel.
— Patience
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The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
— Steve Furtick
Who Wrote These We Compare Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 We Compare Quotes as follows: