Grass Is Greener Quotes

“But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.”
― Joanna Franklin Bell, Take a Load Off, Mona Jamborski

“Except those images weren’t exact captures of reality. No, the Camera Eye was also suffused with what photographers called the Golden Hour—the gilt-tinted hour following sunrise and preceding sunset, when the world was awash with russet rays and even the meanest streets were aglow as if in an Arthurian legend. Every moment spent with John was like that, reality beyond reality. Richer, realer, rawer than reality. These were the moments she remembered most.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“I looked through others' windows
On an enchanted earth
But out of my own window--
solitude and dearth.

And yet there is a mystery
I cannot understand--
That others through my window
See an enchanted land.”
― Jessie B. Rittenhouse

“Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it's where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“The grass is always greener on the other side.”
― Erma Bombeck

“Get busy watering your own grass so as not to notice whether it's greener elsewhere.”
― Karon Waddell

“So strange is the human being that in the midst of my new life and fulfilled wishes, I was sometimes aware of a slight, fleeting, subconscious desire for solitude, for even boring and empty days. It seemed to me that the time I had spent at home and the dreary uneventful life from which I was so glad to escape, was something desirable.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“Look in the mirror rather than at your neighbor.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach.
"The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Grass is greener at other people’s feet because they watered it. You need not to let your environment control you; you have what it takes to make it look beautiful!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“Pain and humiliation is always amusing when it happens to someone else.”
― Eileen Cook, The Hanging Girl

“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, chances are it’s getting better care.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The laws of nature remind us that no matter how long, seeds do grow. Push through long enough to see your seeds grow.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“I am truly, finally done. I love the DeVitos, and I hope I stay in contact with them, but going back has made me realize I made the right decision. The past couple of years have given me a lot of valuable experience. But sometimes I think if I had to do it all over again, I am not sure I would have. The pain of leaving the kids was so much greater than I ever imagined. I just didn't put enough thought into the good-byes.”
― Suzanne Hansen, You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny

“Your life does not need to look like the next person's. Create a world that reflects your particular needs, wants, and mindset.”
― Robin S. Baker