“ Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness. Debasish Mridha
“ I never liked hearing anyone say I was the new George Gershwin, because I knew I could have never even carried that man's music case. If George Gershwin hadn't died when he was thirty-nine years old,… Burt Bacharach
“ It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself. Saint Ignatius (of Loyola)
“ Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons). C.S. Lewis
“ We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves. Malcolm Gladwell
“ By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was young… A.A. Milne
