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"Emotional Intelligence" Quotes

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."

― Winston Churchill

"You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago."

"Sometimes you will never know the value of something until it becomes a memory."

"Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

"Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

"If that's a joke, I love it. If not, can't wait to unpack that with you later."

"One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment."

― Mother Teresa

"We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion."

― Mother Teresa

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get."

"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

― Rumi

"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."

― Rumi

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

― Rumi

"Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out."

― Rumi

"Learn to love the hate. Embrace it. Enjoy it. You earned it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and everyone should have one about you."

― Kobe Bryant

"It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them."

― Kobe Bryant

"Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you."

― Richard Branson

"The root of suffering is attachment."

"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."