Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

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"…if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication."

- Daniel Goleman

Awareness

"True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it."

- Daniel Goleman

Compassion

"Anger is an indication that we are lacking emotional intelligence."

- Daniel Goleman

Empowerment

"Focus is the gateway to all thinking."

- Daniel Goleman

Focus

"A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'"

- Daniel Goleman

Empathy

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"If you don’t share someone’s pain, you can never understand them."

- Nagato

Empathy

"Empathy is being concerned about the human being, not just their output."

- Simon Sinek

Empathy

"Great leaders are willing to be vulnerable and transparent."

- Liz Wiseman

Empathy

"May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had."

- Romans 15:5

Empathy

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

Empathy