Quotes about Emotional intelligence

God may be screaming at us through our physical body while we look for (and prefer) a more "spiritual" signal. The reality is that often our bodies know our feelings before our minds.

The late Dag Hammarskjöld, once the secretary general of the United Nations, suggested that we have become adept at exploring outer space, but we have not developed similar skills in exploring our own personal inner spaces. He wrote, "The longest journey of any person is the journey inward."4 Most of us feel much more equipped to manipulate objects, control situations, and "do" things than to take that very long journey inward. Painful Honesty

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

Sorrow makes us all children again[,] destroys all differences of intellect[.] The wisest know nothing[.]

We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.

character simply by listening to their conversation. The more loving our words and actions are toward others, the more loving and kind our thoughts will be.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

Love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.