Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Wisdom connects you to your heart in your waking moments;

Once you learn that you can feel what you choose to feel, you will be on the road to intelligence—a road where there are no bypaths that lead to [Nervous Break Downs]

You are the person responsible for how you feel. You feel what you think, and you can learn to think differently about anything—if you decide to do so.

MAJOR PREMISE: I can control my thoughts. MINOR PREMISE: My feelings come from my thoughts. CONCLUSION: I can control my feelings.

shift from the acquisition of information and the pursuit of status symbols to understanding and mastering yourself in any and all situations.

Girls don't fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don't snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they've given up and try to lure someone else.

Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

One's heart is not always as smart as one's head.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

Feel for others--in your pocket.

The primary focus of psychotherapy involves the integration of feelings (affect) and thinking (cognition), resulting in personal growth.

we are not our feelings.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library

Never give your heart to a blockhead.

In school, I sat in the back, seldom raising my hand and never raising my voice. But the absence of verbal expression did not mean I was dull to the needs of others. Didn't mean I couldn't think and feel. Didn't absorb. I thought and felt just fine. Absorbed like a sponge. My peripheral vision was twenty-ten. I cried when strangers hurt. Laughed when others smiled.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.

How we feel, think, speak and/or act is what matters in life.--

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

A joke was the best barometer for mental weather.

Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity.

We think too much and feel too little.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Oh yeah? Go fuck yourself. He hung up. I called back ten minutes later, thinking it was an appropriate amount of time to have gone and fucked oneself.