Quotes about Comparison

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God

Coming from an unsuccessful background, I had developed deep feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. I had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who were doing better than me were actually better than me. What I learned was that this was not necessarily true. They were just doing things differently, and what they had learned to do, within reason, I could learn as well.

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

Angry and resentful people enjoy judging other people's problems because it makes them feel better about their own issues.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.

Kevin Owens? He couldn't rock with me. It just wouldn't happen.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

No husband comes in a perfect package. No husband can do it all. Your job as a wife is to fight to stay sensitive to your husband's strengths. Resist the temptation to compare his weaknesses to another husband's strengths, while forgetting your husband's strengths and that other husband's weaknesses.