Haim Ginott Quotes

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

Don't shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals.

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.

I try to always be in touch with my emotions so that I'm mentally clear.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.