Emotional Learning Quotes

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside - that's because it feels kind of romantic and sexier to me. I really think they are the people that we learn lessons from.

We like epic stories, we like adventure, we like epic fights, so if you can mix a great story that can also really teach someone about a different experience, you have the potential to really help people.

We need social and emotional learning in our schools. I think we also need to get good food in the schools. We can't be feeding our kids Pop-Tarts and chocolate milk.

One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.

A good book is an education of the heart.

Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart

We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it. But to be in a real-life situation, a work camp or a trip or some other activity with young people where real forgiveness needs to happen, that's a different situation altogether. And that is where the deepest learning will occur.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It's what you learn.