Emotional intelligence can help you in a variety of different ways in your personal life. One of these ways being that you have better relationships with friends and family because you can be more empathetic with them, can understand their situation and possibly give good advice depending on your outlook at said situation.
We spilled our vegetable seeds; now we have petunias growing in our beets.
I'm pretty sure that that would mean you have beets growing in ur petunias if you spilled ur VEGGIE seeds.<span />
It's basically just saying to appreciate everything you have in life, whether you have a lot or a little. It also says that objects don't make happiness.