Don't waste your time on jealousy (Kurt Vonnegut)

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

(Various people have claimed this quote but I like Andrew Loog Oldham's acknowledgement that it was Mr V)

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