Quotes About Emotional intelligence

My son, this is more essential than anything you will learn on an industrial world: people are more important than machines.

Every relationship is an education.

First with the head and then with the heart.

She did not delude herself into expecting Francis to love her. He had never been taught how to love, but had an arresting way of looking pleased at Adah's achievements.

Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be caused by another person. No one outside you can hurt you. That's not possible. Only when you believe a story about them can you be hurt. So you're the one who's hurting yourself. This is very good news, because it means that you don't have to get someone else to stop hurting you or to change in any way. You're the one who can stop hurting you. You're the only one.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. Baruch Spinoza

If it's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is also information about ourselves worth having.

He wanted to tell himself or maybe even her that he would never understand women, but he had a feeling he wasn't the first man to formulate this opinion and very likely wouldn't be the last and that it really didn't matter anyway.

He wanted to tell himself or maybe even her that he would never understand women, but he had a feeling he wasn't the first man to formulate this opinion and very likely wouldn't be the last and that it really didn't matter anyway. So dismissing this useless assessment, he took a deep breath, exhaled loudly, put the entire matter behind him, and tramped after her.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Sometimes letting out the anger is an even more grievous mistake than holding it in.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

What some people need, said Magrat, to the world in general, is a bit more heart. What some people need, said Granny Weatherwax, to the stormy sky, is a lot more brain. Then she clutched at her hat to stop the wind from blowing it off. What I need, thought Nanny Ogg fervently, is a drink.

Don't start weaving a social hypothesis in front of an angry woman holding a blade.

do not confuse what you hope to accomplish with your personal anger. It will only muddy things.

Understanding someone's suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love.

We are what we feel and perceive. If we are angry, we are the anger.

First of all, you need to know that an emotion is only that—an emotion—even though it may be a big, strong one. You are so much bigger, so much more than this emotion.

If you want your loved ones to be happy, you must learn to understand their sufferings and their aspirations. When you understand, you will know how to relieve their sufferings and how to help them fulfill their aspirations. That is true love. If you only want your loved ones to follow your own ideas and you remain ignorant of their needs, it is not truly love. It is only a desire to possess another and attempt to fulfill your own needs, which cannot be fulfilled in that way.

When we say something that nourishes us and uplifts the people around us, we are feeding love and compassion. When we speak and act in a way that causes tension and anger, we are nourishing violence and suffering.

Angry words backfire upon the speaker.

If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand. If we want to understand a person, we have to feel his feelings, suffer his sufferings, and enjoy his joy.