You Won’t Succeed Until You Get Rid Of This 1 Thing.

People who can’t stand to see the success of others will never experience their own.

The Nile flows more than a thousand miles without receiving the waters of a single tributary. The consequence is that it grows no greater as it courses over that vast line. Other rivers are every now and then receiving converging streams from the right and left. Thereby their volume continually increases until they reach the seas.

The happiness of humans is like the flow of water in a river. If we enjoy nothing but what is our own, our tiny rivulet of contentment, so far from increasing, grows smaller by degrees, until it sinks unseen into the sand. It leaves us in a desert of despair. On the other hand, when all the acquisitions of our neighbors go to swell its bulk, our enjoyment will flow like a river enriched by many affluents. Growing ever greater as life approaches its close.

What is envy?
Envy is a pain or uneasiness, arising from an apprehension of the prosperity and good fortune of others; not because we suffer for their welfare, but merely because their condition is bettered.
It is a mysterious and terrible disease. The nerves of sensation within the envious are attached by some unseen hand to their neighbors all around. Every step of advancement which they make tears the fibers that lie next to their heart. They enjoy a moment’s relief when the mystic cord is temporarily slackened by their neighbor’s fall. Their agony immediately begins again, for they anticipate another twitch as soon as the fallen is restored to prosperity.

Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore de Balzac

1. Like the wild tornado which, as it sweeps along, destroys the loveliest flowers, and leaves the garden desolate as the wilderness, it has cut down many a youth of promise and turned many a peaceful home into a scene of sadness and distress.
2. The happiness of others is poison to the envious. The odious passion of envy torments and destroys one’s self, while it seeks the ruin of its object. Beware of envy. We know not to what it tends.
3. Envy corrodes our inmost being so that we can enjoy no comfort whatever, while we are under its malignant influence.
4. Envy is a leaven that sours and corrupt and is the bane of all that is good and beautiful and desirable in life.
5. Envy everywhere is a fruitful cause of strife. Most contentions in the society are somehow usually connected with envy.
6. A fretful, envious and discontented spirit is its own punishment. It consumes the flesh and makes the countenance pale.
7. No passion that can possess the soul is more imperious and agitating, and consequently more injurious to health than envy.

Socrates called envy the soul’s saw and wished that the envious had more eyes and ears than others, that they might have more torment by beholding and hearing others’ happiness.

Envy everywhere

The physician envies another physician more learned or more successful. The lawyer envies another lawyer. The fashionable person who seeks admiration or flattery on account of accomplishment or beauty envies another who is more distinguished and more successful in those things. And so the poet envies another poet and the orator, another orator. The statesman, another statesman.

3 Signs of envy

The fact is, that so odious is this principle in the estimation of the whole world, that there is not to be found on earth a person who will acknowledge oneself to be actuated by it. Though the real truth is, most of us are under its baneful influence.

1. When we find ourselves averse from doing a person good offices.
2. When we are pleased with the evil of others.
3. When we manifest a censorious disposition. Silencing the good actions of others, or exposing the bad.
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The cure of envy is not only a deliverance from pain but also, an unspeakable gain. They will speedily grow rich who get and put into their bag not only all their own winnings but also all the winnings of their neighbors.

The correction of all envy is “love.” If we loved others. If we rejoiced in their happiness, we should not envy them.

If we are sensible how little improvement we have made of the talents already committed to us, we shall see at once how little reason we have to envy others their increased responsibility.

It is called forth by the honor or advantages which another enjoys above ourselves. Now if those advantages are merited, why should we grudge the person the possession of them?

If we try to make a right judgment of our own worth and abilities, we shall find that there are others in the world at least as wise and as good as we are but not endowed with as much honor as we are.

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