Quotes About Emotional intelligence

My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money

How would you describe a mature person?

Sometimes he hated that voice in his brain, the one that slapped him upside the head anytime he got too stupid. Funny, it happened a lot with Sienna.

Feelings have their own kind of wisdom.

Feeling my anger and sadness were beyond my comprehension. These were skills I didn't learn as a child and didn't even know I lacked.

Self-compassion is such a basic skill, I instinctively taught it to my own children. Yet, I failed to recognize I didn't have it for myself.

I didn't understand the experience of receiving empathy, or that I could even successfully seek empathy.

If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.

Writers step into their subject's shoes so readers can walk in them.

It takes just as much training to get along with people. Only, training by yourself in the mountains won't do you any good. You need to surround yourself with others. As you get to know them, of course you take the chance that you'll end up hurting them, or they'll end up hurting you. One of those things might very well happen. That's the only way we learn... about others, and about ourselves.

Most omissions occur because we fail to get outside ourselves. We are so busy checking on our own temperatures that we do not notice the burning fevers of others even when we could offer them some of the needed remedies, such as encouragement, kindness, and commendation. The hands that hang down and most need to be lifted up belong to those too discouraged even to reach out anymore.

Thoughts, no matter what they are, aren't the problem – our sometimes dysfunctional relationship with them is.

That's it?!! You threw a blanket on her? She's not invisible, you dumb bitch!

If you get mad at someone for being right, they'll second-guess themselves constantly. If you yell at them for telling the truth, they'll just lie next time.

Who advised counting to 10? Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president of the United States. In his book entitled A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life he wrote: "When angry, count to 10 before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

Always know what they like, her mother said. They will love you for it.

Chi si lamenta dell'angustia dell'ambiente in cui vive pretende che siano gli avvenimenti, i vicini, i paesaggi a fornirgli la sensibilità e l'intelligenza che la natura gli ha negato.

Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated.

Seek to know others and you will be amazed at how it will help you understand yourself.

Love and reason have never been well acquainted.

The best listeners listen between the lines.

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Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.

Real empathy requires that we develop the capacity to put our own concerns aside long enough to notice what someone else is going through internally, without reference to ourselves.