Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Von der Mühll devotes almost all his time to the case, trying not to be overly menacing or judgmental. "I can't excuse that, but I can understand," is a phrase the detective is fond of saying.

We know nothing worth knowing about what goes on outside our frontiers. Worse-we know very little more about what goes on within them. Beyond the light of one's own personal experience-darkness. What are people thinking? What are they feeling? How do they behave? Messages of reassurance or exhortation come through. One reads between the lines. Friends pool their knowledge. But in general we live like animals, in ignorance of the world around us.

Look with your heart, not with your eyes. The

Great minds," Eleanor Roosevelt said, "discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." How big is your mind?

Remember, your dad loves you and he always wanted more for you than he ever wanted for himself. And if he pushes your buttons, just tell yourself that he's a master at doing that because he's the one who installed them in the first place.

Perspective-taking is the psychological foundation underlying the capacity for empathy. To judge the rightness or wrongness of an action against another, one must first take the perspective of that other sentient being.

he thought emotionally, not strategically.

les qualités intellectuelles n'ont guère d'importance dans une relation amicale, encore moins évidemment dans une relation amoureuse, elles ont bien peu de poids par rapport à la bonté du cÅ"ur

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél.

El hombre, dicen, es un animal racional. No sé por qué no se haya dicho que es un animal afectivo o sentimental. Y acaso lo que de los demás animales le diferencia sea más el sentimiento que no la razón. Más veces he visto razonar a un gato que no reír o llorar. Acaso llore o ría por dentro, pero por dentro acaso también el cangrejo resuelva ecuaciones de segundo grado

Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives

When people experience strong emotion, they can't hear logic.

We won't be able to eliminate the drama in our lives or escape all the crazies. But we can actually learn to live responsively instead of reactively, being positive when others are negative.

In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.

There can only be a need for forgiveness when first there is blame. And there can only be blame, when first there is misunderstanding.

Let your guilt teach you, not punish you. And let the guilt of others do the same for them, no matter how grave their misunderstandings.

You have inner senses: intellect, intuition, and feelings.

Without words like blame, victim, and fault, I do believe about 50% of the unhappiness in the world would be cured.

Run every thought through the heart. The heart knows.

The heart speaks in feelings, which can be more pure. Trust the heart; it has its own intelligence.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.