Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

You fall in love with your heart; you fall out of love with your head.

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

Tanzie knew Nicky was thinking what she was thinking—that Mum had finally gone mad. But she had read somewhere that mad people were like sleepwalkers—it was best not to disturb them. So she nodded really slowly, like this was all making good sense.

I wondered if she knew that everything she said made the other person feel like an idiot. I wondered if it was something she'd actually cultivated deliberately. I didn't think I could ever manage to make someone feel inferior.

They said I should teach her a lesson. I never got it, not even in the first flush of anger, when I thought she had pretty much stomped all over my heart. You beat a horse and you can break it all right. You can make it submit. But it'll never forget. And it sure as hell won't care for you. So if I wouldn't do it to a horse, I could never work out why I should do it to a human.

Gdy my?lisz, ?e kogo? tracisz, nie zawsze zachowujesz si? w najm?drzejszy sposób.

You beat a horse and you can break it all right. You can make it submit. But it'll never forget. And it sure as hell won't care for you. So if I wouldn't do it to a horse, I could never work out why I should do it to a human.

A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, "I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win." The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, "I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

You can't make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them.

But the fact is that we care a lot about what others think of us. The only people known to have no sociometer are psychopaths.

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

An emotionally intelligent person has a skilled rider who knows how to distract and coax the elephant without having to engage in a direct contest of wills.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brains works so well that our reasoning can work at all.