"We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions."
- Salovey and Mayer

SongLesson:

"I like you the way you are,
When we're driving in your car
And you're talking to me one on one
But you become...
Somebody else 'round everyone else,
You're watching your back like you can't relax,
You're trying to be cool,
You look like a fool to me.
Tell me...
Why did you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else,
Gets me frustrated."
- From the song 'Complicated' by Avril Lavigne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPBIwQyPWE

What about actions that are like harsh words.....
"Actions speak louder than words."
- English proverb

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated."
- Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty

"One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong."
- Sean Stewart

Theme for the week 3/1 - 3/7: Maturity
(inspired by the following quote from last week:
"Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and
their conduct, who own their own actions and own up to them - who answer for them."
- William J. Bennett)

"Let there be no doubt: as long as you continue to blame others instead of assuming your own responsibilities, you will make no meaningful and enduring change for the better. What kind of people are we, if we don't have the character to own up to our own shortcomings and responsibilities? To have and enjoy certain liberties requires us to hold each other and ourselves accountable for our actions."- Gary Ryan Blair

"Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their own actions and own up to them - who answer for them."- William J. Bennett

"Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done."
- Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

LifeLessonsForAll.com: You are responsible for your choices, actions and life, and you must accept the consequences of your choices and actions.

Jesus Chist ate and drink with sinners because they needed his help. But he appeared to be a "low life" for doing so.

Mark 2:16-17 (NIV): When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw (Jesus) eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?" On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

"A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has."
- Anonymous

"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they becone self-forged chains."
- Helen Douglas

"Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you spell character."
- Johann Kasper Lavater