Today's Quotes: Envy! Jealousy! Green-Eyed Monsters

"Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality.  It keeps us from loving our neighbors, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people's unique worth.  It also steals contentment from the heart.  Is there anything or anyone you are envious of?" -Charles R. Swindoll

"It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang." -Charley Reese

"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves." -William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude

"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."  -Josh Billings

"As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy."  -Antisthenes

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock

The meat it feeds on. ~William Shakespeare, Othello