If when others slander you, you claim
Your anger is because they harm themselves,
How is it that you do not resent
The slander of which others are the victim?

The Way of the Bodhisattva
Shantideva

When compliments are heaped upon my merits,
I want others to rejoice in them;
When, however, someone else is praised,
My happiness is slow and grudging.

The Way of the Bodhisattva
Shantideva

Since I want the happiness of beings,
I have wished to be enlightened for their sake.
Why then should others irk me
When they find some pleasure for themselves?

The Way of the Bodhisattva
Shantideva

If even this I do not want for beings,
How could I want Buddhahood for them?
How can anyone have bodhicitta
Who is irritated by the good that others have?

The Way of the Bodhisattva
Shantideva