Today, I was going through my old Elementary Education Class notes, and came across an interesting perspective by Goethe. I had highlighted it, and meant to revist it at a later time as it especially intrigued me. I think it is a refreshing perspective- one that forces you to think about taking responsibility and ownership for own life and circumstances. So tonight, I thought I'd share his thoughts with you as well.
"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 dehumanized.
- 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."
~Goethe
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