Othman Alamri

“She had moved to Los Angeles from the Midwest, lured by a job with a publisher. But the publisher was bought by another soon after, and she was left without a job. Turning to freelance writing, an erratic marketplace, she found herself either swamped with work or unable to pay her rent. She often had to ration phone calls, and for the first time was without health insurance. This lack of coverage was particularly distressing: she found herself catastrophizing about her health, sure every headache signaled a brain tumor, picturing herself in an accident whenever she had to drive somewhere. She often found herself lost in a long reverie of worry, a medley of distress. But, she said, she found her worries almost addictive. Borkovec”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents disciplined their children. Children, they found, were more empathic when the discipline included calling strong attention to the distress their misbehavior caused someone else: “Look how sad you’ve made her feel” instead of “That was naughty.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“قد يستمر الناس على احترام نصوص الشريعة ولكنهم سرعان مايكفون عن مراعاة احكامها”غوستاف لوبون/روح السياسة”
― غوستاف لوبون