I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

