Quotes About Emotional intelligence

If I were truly talented, as I once imagined I was, then I would have understood long ago that life is just about people.

One learns least from people one lives with.

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The ego asks life, "Why is this happening to me?" while the spirit asks, "Why is this happening, and what can I learn from it?

Sweetheart, I know you think it'll be a cathartic experience and you'll say your piece and everyone will come away the wiser,' says Dad. 'But in real life that doesn't happen. I've confronted enough assholes in my time. They never realize they're assholes. Not once. Whatever you say.

He pauses to stretch out his fingers and I'm suddenly transfixed by his hands. Hands which used to roam over me, caress me, make love to me. I know how much emotional intelligence is in those hands. I know how he balances thoughtful, cerebral caution with audacious risk-taking, all without a flicker.

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you.

The same one who mistreated you will be the one needing you. So, don't hesitate to help. Because that will be the best positive revenge.

You can forget what people said and did, but you can never forget how they made you feel. You can forgive the people who hurt you, but you will remember what the taught you.

Our relationship with ourselves significantly affects how we interact with other people. Our self-esteem frequently depends on how we feel we are "doing" at relationships. Given that this fluctuates, so does our self-esteem. Intellectually, we may tell ourselves that it shouldn't, but when have emotions ever obeyed the intellect?

To speak well and to listen carefully is no easy task at times of high emotions and deep conflict. People's very identity is under threat.

We are called as individuals and congregations to learn the disciplines and skills that help us define ourselves, engage each other in nonanxious interaction, and maintain emotional contact even when we disagree.

Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with compassion and awareness or whether you succumb to distractions and trivia. It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.

It has always amazed me how angry people can get at my stupidity. How do they think I feel? They only have to be around me a couple of hours at a time. I've got me all day.

A simple test of a civilised human being is how they describe those who have treated them badly.

Words, words, just stupid words. Listen to your body. Listen to your heart.

He's quiet long enough that I'm about to prod, when he speaks in that way of his that I'm sure he thinks is gentle but is patronizing as hell. Is that what Trinity hears when I address her concerns? Shit. I'll need to be more careful. There's a fine line between "gentle" and "patronizing," and I might be straying as far over it as Oscar is.

mothers (mothers were more likely to be the focus of studies than fathers in that era) who helped the older child understand the baby by saying things like "The baby is crying. Why do you think he's crying? Do you think he's hungry or needs his diaper changed? Let's try to feed him and see if he stops crying" had children who were more likely to fight less and get along better as they grew up.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.