“Emotional intelligence doesn't allow feelings to get in the way - it does just the opposite. It restores balance to our thought processes; it prevents emotions from having undue influence over our actions; and it helps us to realize that we might be a certain way for a reason.”
Source: Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success
“The emotion scientist has a genuine desire to understand and acknowledges that all emotions are information.”
Source: Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive.
“When you can understand and name your emotions, something magical happens. The mere fact of acknowledgement creates the ability to shift. When we don't have the words for our feelings, we're not just lacking descriptive flourish. We're lacking authorship of our own lives.”
Source: Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive.
“No matter how much you want to respect someone's freedom (even when you consider it selfish), you still have your own pain, anger, and melancholy to contend with.”
Source: Lie With Me
“Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you.....”
Source: Across the Porch from God: Reflections of Gratitude
“I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing.”
Source: Space Struck
“Lately, I’ve been feeling betrayed by names: the king cobra isn’t a cobra, the electric eel isn’t an eel, and it turns out my anger was fear all along.”
Source: Space Struck
“I am not a machine, there is only so much and no more that I can absorb of the misery of my kind, when my tears are exhausted a dullness takes place, and out of that dullness a terrible callousness, so that I look on suffering and feel it not.”
Source: Art and Lies
“Emotional literacy is a prerequisite for empathy and psychological resilience.”
Source: Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples
“But in love I gave all: my capabilities, my efforts, my feelings, my deepest emotions. Like a saint, I gave everything I had without ever counting the cost.”
Source: Woman at Point Zero