Quotes About Emotional intelligence

It is difficult to insult the man you don't speak to.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all." And

It's a hard way to learn, but I think that's how most of us learn about jealousy. It seems like a stupid way for anyone to feel, until someone makes you feel it.

I bet if we all threw our problems in a huge pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is about. That's why I always give people the benefit of the doubt; it's one of my rules to live by. There may be a reason why someone is having a bad day, there's often something that we can't see. She is not necessarily a bad person, just someone facing a bad situation.

Native scholar Greg Cajete has written that in indigenous ways of knowing, we understand a thing only when we understand it with all four aspects of our being: mind, body, emotion, and spirit.

God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time.

But, Marcie had reminded herself, I don't know the weight of anyone else's burdens—only my own. She didn't judge. She didn't feel smart or strong enough to judge.

What we wish other people would do has nothing to do with us. That's not moral fiber, that's being judgmental and unforgiving." "I've never been judgmental or unforgiving a day in my life," Maureen protested. "Know

The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.

I can read you almost immediately, get your number right away, and push your buttons to make you do whatever I want.

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

That I had been shallow, stubborn, and selfish did not alter the gravity and stupidity of what I had done. I had made the greatest mistake for a woman literate in nu shu: I had not considered texture, context, and shades of meaning.

He didn't respect or even understand that other people had boundaries and only bullies pushed through them.

Grievous words stir up anger.

No one knows the weight of another's burden. GEORGE HERBERT

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

It indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another.

it indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another.

He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.

I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, That's funny, or instead of smiling said, That's interesting, or instead of saying, You are a stupid blithering idiot, said, Well I think it's a little more complicated than that.

When affection fell on its ass, politeness could step up.

If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.

Optimal sculpting of key neural networks through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment

Trouble with me was, I was a mighty poor hater. There was satisfaction in winning, but winning would have been better if nobody had to lose. That's the way I've always felt, I guess.