Quotes About Emotional intelligence

I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girls outward appearance, and into her soul.

He said the only thin worse than being wrong in a family argument was being right.

You may be able to call up an entire encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain with no heart and no reasoning

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

in the heat of the moment, we can slow down and ask ourselves these questions: • Why is the other person acting this way? What does he need? • Why am I acting this way? What do I need? • Is there some way we could solve the problem and meet both our needs? • Is there an underlying common need? The more emotionally charged the situation, the more we need to stay focused on our goals.

Civilized people don't feel .

Lady stand on line before me, speak English so good, like genius, in America only four years, I ashamed tell twenty-two years; I tell twenty!" To class she went only once. "I don't go back," she said emphatically. "Too foolish book, Dick and Jane." She shrugged disdainfully. "Not Tolstoi!

Unfortunately it is often easier to ignore, dismiss, reject, and even hurt one another rather than engage in constructive confrontation.

True forgiveness requires that we understand the negative actions of another.

Men theorize about love, but women are more often love's practitioners.

We fail at romantic love when we have not learned the art of loving

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

If you wouldn't join in a mugging you saw taking place on a street, if you wouldn't physically attack or verbally abuse and cruelly insult an acquaintance in your school, why would you ever ridicule or hurl vicious and hurtful words at a person online?

Anger leads to savagery,' I said curtly, 'and to stupidity.

He thinks with his heart, Uhtred,' Alfred said, 'not his head. You can change a man's heart, but not his head.

L'amour, c'est la victoire de l'imagination sur l'intelligence.

Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant, I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Will machines destroy emotions or will emotions destroy machines?

The mark of a civilized man is the capacity to read a column of numbers and weep.

there is no profit in feeling unless one learns to dominate it and impersonalise it. -

You can make a decision with your head. It still takes your heart a while to catch up with it.

One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.