Emotional Intelligence Quotes

“Every single negative emotion is an arrow sign pointing towards a problem which needs your attention”
― Ian Tuhovsky, Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Emotions and Raising Your EQ

“We are getting richer, but less and less happy. Depression, suicide, relationship breakdowns, loneliness of choice, fear of closeness, addictions - this is the clear evidence we are getting increasingly worse when it comes to dealing with our emotions.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Emotions and Raising Your EQ

“Every single negative emotion is an arrow sign pointing towards a problem which needs your attention!”
― Ian Tuhovsky, Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Emotions and Raising Your EQ

“Let’s state this again: the past does not exist. It is only a record in your head, in the form of multi-sensory memories. Why should you be worried so much about something that doesn’t exist anymore? Why would you waste your life away focusing your attention on a videotape, on a stretch of reality which is recorded?”
― Ian Tuhovsky, Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Emotions and Raising Your EQ

“You usually don’t react to reality, but to your thoughts about reality!”
― Ian Tuhovsky, Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Emotions and Raising Your EQ

“Emotional denial is a consequence of the social belief that emotions are bad. That we shouldn’t feel negative emotions. That emotions have to be fully controlled at all times and suppressed.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Emotions and Raising Your EQ

“There’s one thing you must remember—you can regulate your emotions. Once again, it is a skill, like any other. Calming down the unpleasant feelings when necessary, reinforcing the positive ones, whenever you want. In every single moment of your life, you can feel exactly as you want to feel. It will guide you directly to the conscious life in which creating lasting relationships and making new challenges will be accompanied by excitement and enjoyment rather than fear and stress.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Emotions and Raising Your EQ