{"quotes":[{"text":"The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon.","author":"Jacquelyn Frank","tags":["comparing","jealousy","mistake"],"id":19296,"author_id":"Jacquelyn+Frank"},{"text":"Don't compare yourself to other Christians. Compare yourself to Christ. He is the one you follow. He is the one other Christians too follow'.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bible","christ","christians","church","compare","comparing","follow","food-for-thought","god","israelmore-ayivor","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus-love-you","king-of-kings","lord-of-lords","messiah","saviour","sermon","worship"],"id":23408,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you’ll realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they are so similar. You’ll discover the difference between doing well and pretending to do well, between being happy and pretending to be happy, between healthy relationships and staged ones. You’ll see just how many obstacles lie on any path. You’ll realize that it takes the same amount of effort to work on building up the quality of the conversations in your life as it does to broadcast to the public, constantly, that those conversations are already perfect. You can either build up the mask or build up the authentic self. And you, brave and beautiful you, will make the right choice eventually. Be it now or on your deathbed. We all realize soon enough.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["authentic-self","authenticity","comparing","comparing-to-others","envy","jealousy","self-acceptance","self-love","self-respect","social-comparison"],"id":38795,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships...The highest form of influence is to be a model, not a critic; a light, not a judge.","author":"Stephen R. Covey","tags":["comparing","judging-others","relationships"],"id":63181,"author_id":"Stephen+R.+Covey"},{"text":"Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, 'I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.","author":"Sean Covey","tags":["comparing","competition","jealousy"],"id":117569,"author_id":"Sean+Covey"},{"text":"After so many years struggling to keep up with you, I finally realized we’re not even running the same race.","author":"Scott Stabile","tags":["comparing","life","race"],"id":121954,"author_id":"Scott+Stabile"},{"text":"Comparison is the thief of joy.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt","tags":["comparing","envy","happiness","unhappiness"],"id":125313,"author_id":"Theodore+Roosevelt"},{"text":"Be you. You are sacred.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["comparing","comparison","envy","inspiration","life","motivation","positive-thinking","sacred","self-care","self-love","uniqueness"],"id":126832,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"And that is to say, of course, that you can 'read' a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other.","author":"Richard Mitchell","tags":["comparing","culture","knowing","literature","understanding"],"id":127668,"author_id":"Richard+Mitchell"},{"text":"The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.","author":"Clinton Kelly","tags":["comparing","women"],"id":159656,"author_id":"Clinton+Kelly"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}