Words of Wisdom

~ EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ~

"As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery... we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness." —Dalai Lama quote "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." —Khalil Gibran
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs." —Charlotte Brontë
"He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger." —Japanese proverb
"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values." —Joshua L. Liebman
"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident. Riches take wing. Only one thing endures. And that is character." —Horace Greeley

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." —Kahlil Gibran
"There's enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed." —Ghandi
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned." —Buddha
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." —Paul Boese
"Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths." —Miguel de Cervantes
"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business." —Norman Vincent Peale
"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us —how we can take it, what we do with it —and that is what really counts in the end." —Joseph Fort Newton

"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt..." —Dorothy Day
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master." —Epictetus
"Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear." —Alan Cohen
"There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring: impatience and laziness." —Franz Kafka
"Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you." —Vipin Sharm
"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge." —Audre Lorde
"Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance." —Deepak Chopra
"We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel." —Marshall B. Rosenberg

"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." —Dale Carnegie
"Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating." —Peter Shepherd
"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world." —Les Brown
"Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you." —Aldous Huxley
"With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner." —Peter Shepherd
"Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait... and peace will appear."
–Guy Finley