Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Your heart has a deeper intelligence than your mind ever will.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Weak people get revenge, strong people forgive, and intelligent people ignore.

For if you damn others for their errors, how can you not also damn yourself—your entire being or personhood—for your failings? Give some thought to that dilemma! Your hating others as persons, in other words, borders much too close on self-hatred.

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

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in great wisdom there was great sadness, and that he who multiplied knowledge also multiplied grief.

Sapeva ascoltare. E sapeva leggere. Non i libri, quelli son buoni tutti, sapeva leggere la gente. I segni che la gente si porta addosso: posti, rumori, odori, la loro terra, la loro storia... Tutta scritta, addosso.

Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma--it just is.

To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or bold simply because they used such language; each time they opened their mouths they proclaimed I am a person who is poor in words.

It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one's anger.

Most children have become very surly. That is because they are not taught to think about others any more. They are, quite simply, spoiled.

There are plenty of good stories. There are plenty of good people who go through life without … well, without anger. Who are kind to other folk. Who don't rant and rage.

one should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of another.

for there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

Why was it that, when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing? Commissario Guido Brunetti

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Having hope," writes Daniel Goleman in his study of emotional intelligence, "means that one will not give in to overwhelming anxiety, a defeatist attitude, or depression in the face of difficult challenges or setbacks." Hope is "more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right"; it is "believing you have the will and the way to accomplish your goals.

You can't make a second career out of pointing out someone's flaws and expect them to love you

What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

Knowing, loving, and respecting yourself is an absolute prerequisite to knowing, loving, and respecting someone else.