Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

Try asking instead of telling, understanding instead of responding, listening instead of talking.

is also famous for his outbursts of temper and his put-downs of employees

which is why he makes such an excellent choice to teach students about feelings.

We mustn't use the sorrow of another to reinforce our joy, even unintentionally.

Some useful statements to pocket to create safe spaces for discussion: Tell me more about that. Tell me how your thoughts progressed in this. I appreciate your experience with this. I'm listening. I hear what you are saying. I would love to learn from you. I care about how you feel and your perspective here. I understand that. I identify with

I'm a little mad. He shouldn't have said whatever he said to make you so upset. But we should try not to judge people based on one instance.

You want sensitive and understanding, stick with the therapist.You want great, headbanging sex, get off the fucking phone and come with me.

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

Knowing your latitude and longitude is not the same as knowing where you are.

Children's behavior that we find disruptive or hurtful isn't "mis" anything. We may find it annoying, troubling, or infuriating, but it isn't intrinsically "bad" or "wrong." On the contrary, a child's behavior is exceedingly accurate. It is at once a true expression of their need at a particular moment as well as a reflection of their current ability to meet that need.

You feel stupid. Doesn't mean you are.

Is that your professional take on the situation?" I kept my voice dry and caustic. This wasn't worth yelling over. It wasn't even worth a heated whisper.

Ik kan natuurlijk wel zeggen dat je niet altijd boos op me kunt blijven, maar jou kennende zou je dat als een uitdaging zien. - Ivy

One thing I've learned, my friend, is every person you meet has different needs, and when we wish to be a valuable part of the person's life, we must learn them." His mouth quirked in a wry grin. "I suppose that's the trick, isn't it? Caring for a person in the way they require, even when it's not how we'd wish to. from Miss Whitaker Opens Her Heart

Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that 'man was made to reason, woman to feel.' Perhaps Austen was tired of reading passages in conduct books suggesting that young women were innately sensitive, quivering, emotional messes.

Catherine usually sat by me, but to- day she stole nearer to Hareton; and I presently saw she would have no more discretion in her friendship than she had in her hostility.

Me acuerdo de ser educado, que es cuando la gente tiene miedo de que los otros se enfaden.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather: Understand one another.

You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart." Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.