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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
— Ingrid Betancourt
I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
— Mario Batali
The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.
— Gary Zukav
We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place. 
— Nazanin Boniadi
A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out and assign blame, but we also draw from deep reservoirs of forgiveness.
— Judy Smith
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
— Patty Duke
'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.
— Pawel Pawlikowski
Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
— Art Alexakis
I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
— Park Chan-wook
Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?
— Meir Soloveichik
Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.
— Patricia Heaton
Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
— Said Nursi
God will forgive me. It's his job.
— Heinrich Heine
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
— Adam Hamilton
If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
— Keira Knightley
I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.
— Dick Gephardt
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
— Nancy Grace
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
— George MacDonald
9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.
— Eugene Kennedy
I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.
— Nell Carter
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
— Cheryl Hines
I believe in forgiveness.
— Pam Bondi
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
— Kevin DeYoung
In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.
— John Edwards
You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
— Athol Fugard
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. 
— Jessamyn West
I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved. Forgiveness is required.
— Bill Clegg
We cannot go alone to God. We belong to His Mystical Body, the Church; by even our most secret sins, if they be grievous, we have injured the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ and must ask forgiveness of His Mystical Body, too.
— Vincent McNabb
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
— Virginia Foxx
We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.
— Joseph Prince
If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
— Miroslav Volf
I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.
— Julian Clary
God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.
— Jim Bakker
I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.
— Scott Stapp
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
— Alice Miller
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
— Alexander Chase
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
— Jennifer O'Neill
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
— Charles Williams
And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.
— John Rowland
My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
— Larry Drake
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.
— Kent Haruf
I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
— Lee Tergesen
To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
— David Small
If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.
— Jud Wilhite
Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.
— Elin Nordegren
Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
— Billy Ray Cyrus
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
— Robert Rainy
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
— Andrea Thompson
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
— Immaculee Ilibagiza
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.
— Jeffrey Bell
We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
— Bartlett Sher
I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!
— Susan Smith
I'm not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can't deny they came from Christianity as well.
— Mosab Hassan Yousef
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
— Bob Marley
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
— Gary Allan
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
— William Penn
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
— B. C. Forbes
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
— Robert Kraft
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.
— Billy Graham
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
— George Washington
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.
— Helen Fisher
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
— Lope de Vega
People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
— Summer Altice
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
— Rodney Dangerfield
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
'Game of Thrones,' people say that it's a fantasy series, but it's a hell of a lot more than that. It attracts the so-called geeks and nerds, and God bless them, they're wonderful for getting right into the show. But primarily it's about family; it's power and betrayal and jealousy. It's all those wonderful things that a fantastic drama is about.
— Liam Cunningham
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
— Francoise Sagan
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
— Havelock Ellis
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
— Gary Zukav
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
— William Wycherley
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
— Arthur Golden
Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
— Christian Slater
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.
— Robert Kraft
I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.
— Adriana Lima
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
— Helen Fisher
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
— Joseph P. Kennedy
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
— Lawrence Durrell
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
— Washington Irving
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
— Baruch Spinoza
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
— Marie de France
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
— Gene Tierney
That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.
— Clyde Tombaugh
There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There's jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
— Alain de Botton
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
— James M. Barrie
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
— George Eliot
A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
— Kim Ki-duk
Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.
— Cesare Beccaria
Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'
— John McAfee
I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.
— Marina Abromovic
It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.
— Joy Behar
Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.
— Tom Drury
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
— Karl Kraus
I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
— Nas
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
— John Dryden
Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it. 
— Germaine Greer
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
— Jean Baudrillard
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
— Gene Roddenberry
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
— George Meredith
Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.
— Shiloh Fernandez
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
— Baltasar Gracian
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
— Ambrose Bierce
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
— Marilyn Manson
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
— George Eliot
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
— Lord Byron
Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
— Sylvia Kristel
I do not say anything from jealousy.
— Anna Held
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
— Cheryl Tiegs
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.
— Pete Fountain
There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.
— Heber J. Grant
If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.
— Ron Moody
If there's an inkling of abuse, I have to move on. Even jealousy - seems cute it first, but if they're getting in my head, it's not right for me. It's okay to be alone. It's okay to be single. The right thing will come along.
— Christina Milian
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
— Richard Le Gallienne
'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
— Kathe Koja
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.
— Alanis Morissette
Jealousy is a scary thing.
— Laura Dern
Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to receive light and truth. And the feelings of disappointment that invariably follow are the seeds of greater discord and faultfinding among those who expected a learning experience that did not come.
— Henry B. Eyring
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
— Emile M. Cioran
My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?
— Janet Jackson
I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.
— Julie Burchill
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
— Lena Dunham
Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.
— Mohsin Hamid
I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.
— David Thewlis
I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.
— Lenny Abrahamson
I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
— Olga Kurylenko
Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.
— Rivers Cuomo
My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.
— John Caudwell
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
— Helen Rowland
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
— Jeff Foxworthy
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
— Craig Brown
I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.
— Brooke Burke
I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.
— Jane Goldman
In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
— John Wayne
But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods. 
— Herodotus
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
— Chris O'Dowd
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.
— Jane Birkin
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.
— Sophie Hannah
My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
— Felicity Kendal
Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
— Adam DeVine
I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
— Keira Knightley
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
— Nadine Velazquez
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
— Mary Douglas
I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
— Michael Ian Black
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
— William Graham Sumner
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.
— Jeff Ross
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
— Martina Hingis
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
— Alexis Carrel
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
— Richard Perle
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
— Conrad Veidt
'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
— Pete Docter
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
— James Beattie
Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
— Adrian Lyne
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.
— Hallie Ephron
Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.
— Gong Li
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
— Kristin Bauer van Straten
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
— Henry Lawson
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking.
— Kresley Cole
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
— Paul Eldridge
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
— Ludovico Ariosto
I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.
— Vusi Mahlasela
My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.
— Kristy McNichol
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
— Abbott L. Lowell
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
— Dorothy Corkille Briggs
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
— Sigmund Freud
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
— A. A. Milne
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
— Rabindranath Tagore
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
— William Blake
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
— B. C. Forbes
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
— William Wordsworth
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
— Georges Bernanos
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
— Ramakrishna
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
— George Eliot
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
— Pablo Neruda
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
— D. H. Lawrence
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
— Daniel Webster
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
— Dogen
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
— Rudyard Kipling
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
— Caecilius Statius
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
— Luis Barragan
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
— Gertrude Jekyll
My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.
— Emanuel Steward
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
— Thomas Moore
I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
— C. Z. Guest
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
— Alfred Austin
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
— Ken Kesey
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
— Roberto Burle Marx
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
— Oscar de la Renta
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
— May Sarton
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
— Khalil Gibran
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
— Robert Bridges
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
— Voltaire
Use plants to bring life.
— Douglas Wilson
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
— Eric Morecambe
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
— Dogen
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
— Francis Cabot Lowell
All gardening is landscape painting.
— William Kent
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
— Alice Sebold
Garden as though you will live forever.
— William Kent
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
— Alice Walker
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
— Anne Lamott
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
— Barbra Streisand
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
— Thomas Jefferson
The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
— W. H. Davies
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
— Carolus Linnaeus
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
— John Harrison
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
— Beau Bridges
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
— Suzy Bogguss
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
— Bootsy Collins
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
— Sean Bean
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
— Andrew Weil
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Gardening always has been an art, essentially.
— Robert Irwin
Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.
— Diane von Furstenberg
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
— Nick Cave
I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.
— John Hurt
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.
— Elton John
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.
— Jane Pauley
Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone. 
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
— David Chang
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
— D. Elton Trueblood
Flowers are happy things.
— P. G. Wodehouse
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
— Gertrude Stein
To dwell is to garden.
— Martin Heidegger
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.
— Peter Zumthor
Gardening is not a rational act.
— Margaret Atwood
There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.
— Peter Mayle
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
— Jean Anouilh
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
— William Cowper
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
— Dorothy Malone
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
— Gertrude Jekyll
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
— Martha Smith
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
— Alexander Smith
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
— Bill Watterson
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
— Jacqueline Bisset
The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
— Charlotte Smith
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
— Andrew Weil
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
— J. M. Roberts
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.
— Tom Hodgkinson
I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.
— Helen Mirren
Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?
— Mike Krieger
I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.
— Anna Getty
I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
— Simon Baker
Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.
— Stella McCartney
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.
— Emily Oster
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.
— Hillary Clinton
If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.
— Christian Louboutin
It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
— Viggo Mortensen
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.
— Blake Shelton
My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.
— Jillian Michaels
Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.
— Jillian Michaels
Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.
— Mary Berry
I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
— Elton John
Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.
— Diana Gabaldon
I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.
— Parker Posey
Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.
— Cory Gardner
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
— Joseph Addison
I do the gardening.
— Ken Livingstone
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.
— Joel Salatin
I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building.
— Jeremy Irons
I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.
— Andrew Weil
My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
— J. B. Smoove
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.
— Lykke Li
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.
— Russell Smith
I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?
— Alex Honnold
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
— Deborah Moggach
At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.
— Jennifer Saunders
I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.
— Shilpa Shetty
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
— Jamaica Kincaid
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
— Adam Ant
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
— Ina Garten
When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.
— Emilia Fox
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
— Robert Smithson
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
— Doris Day
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
— Ken Thompson
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
— Miranda Richardson
The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
— Lillie Langtry
I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.
— Steven Cojocaru
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
— Clive Anderson
I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
— Carolyn Murphy
Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.
— Hilarie Burton
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
— Amanda Donohoe
Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.
— Penelope Keith
I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
— Aaron Taylor-Johnson
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
— Jeremy Northam
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.
— Hayley Mills
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
— Robert Fortune