“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing more I can add to this.
Beautiful.
Profound.
Difficult.
Powerful.
Life changing.
Couldn’t agree more and will say I think anything that happens in our daily lives is truly just a cause and effect chain reaction type thing. So, I just couldn’t agree more 🙂
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Yes! It’s ALL of those things. It’s a tough love quote for sure – so much truth but hard to swallow.
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Love it all too and agree with it too…great quote
Except the last line did not sit with me. Dont agree with that part
Lk
Meant two last sentences
Lk
Wow. That’s all I can see. So beautiful. Bookmarked for future reference. 🙂
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What a truly amazing quote!!
It shows us how very much power we hold without even knowing it!
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