Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Anger Short-Circuits Learning

Trying to reason with kids who are emotionally upset is a waste of good air.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.

Hetta, we are women. Being stupid about men is our job. If we weren't stupid, we wouldn't have anything to do with them.

Retrospect the way that you expressed feelings yesterday. If you tend to use your feelings as a way to justify feeling bad, consider the possibility that you could use your feelings as guides to feeling better.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

A world without empathy is a world that is dead to others—and if we are dead to others, we are dead to ourselves. The sharing of another's pain can take us past the narrow canyon of selfish disregard, and even cruelty, and into the larger, more expansive landscape of wisdom and compassion.

if we manipulate others into not sharing so we don't have to hear, so we don't have to listen, or if we react with horror or abandon the scene, we stifle our empathy and rob ourselves of this fundamental virtue of humanity.

Let's play our 'benefit of the doubt' game, shall we?" This was a game that I invented when she was little. The goal was to remind ourselves not to take things personally, to extend grace to others by recognizing that we don't know what's happening in their lives. What started as a way to teach empathy wound up being a wonderful tool for me.

There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

Never doubt another's choices, I say. You can't know his reasons.

And, like all the others, I have been manipulated to suit Ted's needs. I don't feel particularly embarrassed or resentful about that. I was one of many, all of us intelligent, compassionate people who had no real comprehension of what possessed him, what drove him obsessively.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Ich bin wie ein Drachen im Wind, wenn jemand die Schnur losläßt, pfff, fliege ich davon. Und du, das ist witzig, ich denke oft, dass du stark genug bist, um mich zu halten, und intelligent genug, um mich ziehen zu lassen.

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

Anger and reason are rarely partners

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

emotionally incontinent,

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

She was eager to stoop to his level.