The
most difficult thing in any negotiation,
almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion
and deal with the facts.
-- Howard Baker
*
The
lack of emotional security of our American young
people is due, I believe, to their isolation from
the larger family unit. No two people - no mere
father and mother - as I have often said, are enough
to provide emotional security for a child. He needs
to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons
of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied
to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot
break if he could, for nature has welded him into
it before he was born.
~ Pearl S. Buck
"The
economic benefits of investing in children have
been extensively documented. Investing fully
in children today will ensure the well-being
and productivity of future generations for decades
to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional
and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts
on children can mean a lifetime of suffering
and want – and a legacy of poverty for the next
generation… " -- Carol
Bellamy
The
child awakens to a universe.
The mind of the child to a world of meaning.
Imagination to a world of beauty.
Emotions to a world of intimacy.
It takes a universe to make a child
both in outer form and inner spirit.
It takes a universe to educate a child.
A universe to fulfill a child.
~ Thomas Berry
*
Purusing
peace means rising above one's own wants, needs,
and emotions.
-- Benazir
Bhutto
"Children
need systems that are inclusive and driven by
them, systems that will enable them to respond
to their feelings and needs at any time."
-- Jeroo Billimoria
*
You
cannot make yourself feel something you do not
feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite
of your feelings.
-- Pearl S. Buck
There
is a boundary to men's passions when they act
from feelings; but none when they are under the
influence of imagination.
-- Edmund Burke
When
dealing with people, remember you are not dealing
with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
-- Dale Carnegie
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge
and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions
of the senses are the fertile soil in which the
seeds must grow.
-- Rachel Carson
Family
is the first social unit for developing the qualities
of the heart. A true family grows and moves through
life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether
a biological family or an extended family of people
attracted to each other based on heart resonance
and mutual support, the word "family" implies
warmth, a place where the core feelings of the
heart are nurtured. Family values represent the
core values and guidelines that parents and family
members hold in high regard for the well-being
of the family. Sincere family feelings are core
heart feelings. They are the basis for true family
values. While we have differences, we remain "family"
by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides
necessary security and support, and acts as a
buffer against external problems. A family made
up of secure people generates a magnetic power
that can get things done. They are the hope for
real security in a stressful world.
-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath
Solution
*
Most
of what we take as being important is not material,
whether it's music or feelings or love. They're
things we can't really see or touch. They're not
material, but they're vitally important to us.
--
Judy Collins
*
As a people, we value family, education and success.
Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies
have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger
can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional
and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly
in school and are unlikely to grow into productive
adults. For families, experiencing hunger means
living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring
citizens must put an end to this disgrace.
-- Ted Danson
The
freedom to be at peace in our own skins - that’s
what forgiveness allows. We relinquish this freedom
when we hold onto anger and resentment. Enormous
amounts of energy are wasted when we hold back
our love, hold onto hate, and harbor acrimonious
feelings. The only remedy is letting go, and being
willing to forgive.
-- Naomi Drew
“The
most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt
in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
-- Albert Einstein
"Forgiving
is an act of mercy toward an offender.
We are no longer controlled by angry feelings toward
this person."
-- Robert D. Enright
"Forgiveness
works directly on the emotion of anger (and related
constructs such as resentment, hostility, or hatred)
by diminishing its intensity or level within the mind
and heart."
-- Richard Fitzgibbons
The
colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption
that insight will work with people who are unmotivated
to change. Communication does not depend on syntax,
or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the
emotional context in which the message is being heard.
People can only hear you when they are moving toward
you, and they are not likely to when your words are
pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power
when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real
figures of speech.
-- Edwin H. Friedman
*...violence is destroying us. You know,
we’re seeing violence growing every day in our
streets, in our homes, in our towns, in our cities,
in the world itself. Everywhere we turn, we see
violence and hate and prejudice and anger and
all of these negative emotions that are destroying
humanity. And we have to wake up and take note
of this and try to change our course, so that
we can create a world of peace and harmony where
future generations can live happily together.
-- Arun Gandhi
Families
are about love overcoming emotional torture.
-- Matt Groening
*
We
found out that the young people who had a substantial
number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively
Curriculum ... not only did better in terms of
people skills, that they managed their emotions,
they were less violent and more caring, but they
actually did better on their academic achievement
tests.
~ Linda Lantieri
*
Emotional
intelligence in the work that we do in the Resolving
Conflict Creatively Program, is about equipping young
people with the kinds of skills they need to both identify
and manage their emotions, to communicate those emotions
effectively, and to resolve conflict nonviolently. So
it's a whole set of skills and competencies that, for
us, fall under the umbrella of emotional intelligence.
~ Linda Lantieri
We're
finally learning that it is not an either-or situation
... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral
to each other."
~ Linda Lantieri
“What
is the quality of your intent? Certain people have
a way of saying things that shake us at the core.
Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive,
the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing
is the intent behind the words. When we intend to
do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens.
What each of us must come to realize is that our
intent always comes through. We cannot sugarcoat
the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion
is the energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what
we really want to create. We should be honest and
do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves
and everyone around is to examine the reasons of
our true intent. My intent will be evident in the
results.”
-- Thurgood
Marshall
Our
emotional symptoms are precious sources of life
and individuality. Thomas More
"Be
willing to bring bad feelings to the light of
day. Expose them for what they are. They are only
feelings after all."
-- Lynne Namka
(AngriesOut.com)
"Forgiveness
offers the possibility of two types of peace: peace
of mind --
the potential healing of old emotional wounds, and peace
with others --
the possibility of new, more gratifying relationships
in the future."
-- Kenneth I. Pargament & Mark S. Rye
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily
life off our souls.
-- Pablo Picasso
Some
painters transform the sun into a yellow spot,
others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-- Pablo Picasso
The
artist is a receptacle for emotions that come
from all over the place: from the sky, from the
earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape,
from a spider's web.
-- Pablo Picasso
When
you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to
that person or condition by an emotional link that is
stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to
dissolve that link and get free.
-- Catherine Ponder
*
Your
emotional state has a tremendous amount to do
with sickness, health and well-being. For years,
my husband and I lived on -- and because of --
hope.
-- Dana Reeve
*
Nobody
can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
*
"It seems to me of great importance to teach
children respect for life. Towards this end,
experiments on living animals in classrooms
should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the
name of science can only destroy the finer emotions
of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling
callousness in the young towards suffering in
all living creatures."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
*
When
we hear the other person's feelings and needs,
we recognize our common humanity.
-- Marshall
Rosenberg
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides,
a man who is in the habit of reasoning will
search for logical grounds in favour of the
belief which he finds in himself. -- Bertrand
Russell
When
a moment is carrying your thoughts and emotions
somewhere you don't want to go, stop, take a deep
breath and slowly whisper "May Peace Prevail On
Earth" a few times. This simple phrase will center
you, and remind you that you are never alone in
your wish for a better world. At any moment many
others are sharing this universal wish all across
the globe.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
Whenever
we feel overwhelmed by the amount that needs to
be done, or caught up in a moment of anger, we
need to take time out for peace of mind. For some,
prayer or meditation will be the way to refocus
and remember our higher purpose. Simply stopping
for a moment and taking a deep breath and counting
to ten, is sometimes all that we need to pull
us out of a situation so that we can pause, and
refocus and restore the balance of purpose and
direction.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
The
ideal of "a family" is one of the most basic models
of what a better world can be like. In a perfect family,
the members are joined by bonds of love; they are a
team, helping each other meet all of their physical
and emotional needs. Of course no family is perfect,
but a family that strives together to become a "family
for a better world" can help each member to feel more
fulfilled and better about themselves and the world.
They also provide a real-life example of how the human
family can work together to create a better world. --
Robert Alan Silverstein
I
don't have any understanding of a human being
who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that
goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings
and needs.
-- Alicia
Silverstone
"There
are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality,
language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so
do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation,
and support from others. We need to understand our environment
and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain
inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of
mind -- for wisdom."
-- J. Donald Walters
"The
more I read and the more I talked to other parents of
children with disabilities and normal children, the
more I found that feelings and emotions about children
are very much the same in all families. The accident
of illness or disability serves only to intensify feelings
and emotions, not to change them."
-- Judith Weatherly
"My
work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and
ethnic separations to directly connect to the
heart, mind, and emotion with people.”
-- Lily Yeh
"By
choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional
currents you will release and which you will reinforce,
you determine the quality of your Light. You determine
the effects that you will have upon others, and the
nature of the experiences of your life." - Gary Zukav
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