Jealousy is like a disease. Not only does it affect the person with it, but also their relationship with the person they are feeling it towards. Jealousy ruins relationships. It may seem healthy and good at first, but it progresses and becomes unhealthy fast.
Someone who is jealous feels inferior and insecure. They find the other person to be better, happier, and at a higher level compared to them. They tend to feel threatened by the other person.
A good example is in relationships when someone is jealous of a third party. They usually feel like the third party could take away their partner because they seem to be better or have something that they lack.
Friends, siblings, and colleagues could be jealous of each other too. Someone could be jealous of their friend's happy relationship. Another could be jealous because their sibling seems to have their life all figured out. Others could be jealous because their colleague does a better job than them at work.
When people are jealous, they feel inadequate or lacking, and are not happy with themselves. Jealousy always stems from comparison as they try to compare what they have with what someone else has. If someone is jealous of you, it means that you are doing something right.
When you are confident in yourself, you will have no room for jealousy. There will be no need for you to hate on anyone else because you know you are amazing. You know who you are and what you are capable of. Instead of focusing on other people, you will focus on being better.
People who are jealous of you will even go to the extend of talking ill of you so that others will not like you. Here is a curated collection of jealousy quotes that you will relate to.
![If you think of someone’s good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri, it’s as if their qualities are stuck to their back! People around the world are like onigiri. Everyone has an umeboshi with a different shape and color and flavor. But because it’s stuck on their back, they might not be able to see their umeboshi. “There’s nothing special about me. I’m just white rice.” [in her head] That’s not true. There is an umeboshi — on your back. [aloud] Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other, is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people’s backs. I can see them, too. I can see them perfectly. There’s an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun.](/_img/width=300,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/8631.jpeg)
![All these years and that vow is still right here [gestures to his heart]. If I have to lie or manipulate a few people along the way, then so be it. It’s a small price to pay, even if someone gets hurt… I do feel bad about it sometimes though. Mostly, it’s when I’m looking at Tohru. She’s just good, through and through. She helps for those two, but her innocence may be a bit much for me. Sometimes she forces me to realize that mine might be the filthiest soul of all. Granted, I am as dirty as they come. It’s funny but, sometimes, I find myself feeling jealous of you. And I wonder if maybe I’m the one most cursed of us.](/_img/width=300,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/9602.jpg)
![[Mrs. Pentstemmon] had said Sophie was a witch. Oddly enough, Sophie accepted this without any trouble at all. That explained the popularity of certain hats, she thought. It explained Jane Farrier’s Count Whatsit. It possibly explained the jealousy of the Witch of the Waste. It was as if Sophie had always known this. But she had thought it was not proper to have a magic gift because she was the eldest of three. Lettie had been far more sensible about such things.](/_img/width=300,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2301.jpeg)
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