1. Emotional Intelligence

2. Emotional Intelligence
Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
–Aristotle
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3. Emotional Intelligence
I know it is hard to accept, but an upset in your life is beneficial, in that it tells you that you are off course in some way and you need to find your way back to your particular path of clarity once again.
–Susan Jeffers
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4. Emotional Intelligence
Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear and powerful in the midst of emotional "storms."
–Anthony Robbins
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5. Emotional Intelligence
Living life as an art requires a readiness to forgive.
–Maya Angelou
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6. Emotional Intelligence
The heart has its reason which reason knows not of.
—Blaise Pascal
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7. Emotional Intelligence
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
—Erica Jong
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People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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9. Emotional Intelligence
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude.
—Judith M. Knowlton
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You only thought it could happen to other people. It has happened. But I’m going to deal with it. Life is going to go on for me, and I’m going to be a happy man.
—Earvin (Magic) Johnson, announcing his HIV status
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
–Martha Washington
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12. Emotional Intelligence
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
–William Shakespeare
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13. Emotional Intelligence
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....
–Anne Frank
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
—John Milton
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15. Emotional Intelligence
To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
–Rita Mae Brown
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16. Emotional Intelligence
People are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
—Abraham Lincoln
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17. Emotional Intelligence
If your images are positive, they will support you and cheer you on when you get discouraged. Negative pictures rattle around inside of you, affecting you without your knowing it.
—Virginia Satir
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18. Emotional Intelligence
Students who are anxious, angry, or depressed don't learn; people who are caught in these states do not take in information efficiently or deal with it well.
—Daniel Goleman
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19. Emotional Intelligence
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives.
—William James
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20. Emotional Intelligence
The best career advice to give the young is “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
–Katherine Whitehorn
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21. Emotional Intelligence
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
–William Saroyan
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22. Emotional Intelligence
In the realm of emotions, many people are functioning at a kindergarten level. There is no need for self-blame. After all, in your formal education, how many courses did you take in dealing with feelings?
–Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks
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23. Emotional Intelligence
Emotion is an irreplaceable resource; it tells us through instant physical feedback whether a decision or an action is right for us.
–Jeanne Segal
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24. Emotional Intelligence
Intelligent people realize that unhappiness comes from within, and while an event may be irritating, one can change his reaction by his definitions and verbalizations of events.
–Albert Ellis
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25. Emotional Intelligence
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
–Marya Mannes
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26. Emotional Intelligence
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
—Rita Mae Brown
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