By Lillian Cunningham — 2014
“With poetry,” Collins says, “you don’t have to go through a windshield to realize that life is precious.”
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The definition of emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, differentiate, and manage our emotions and the emotions of others. The notion of emotions being important in our lives goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks.
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