GOETHE'S WORLD VIEW

I have come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate (for my daughter, my friends, my patients, my colleagues, my students, myself).

It is my daily mood that makes the weather.

I possess tremendous power to make another 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.

Or, as posted on my teacher brother's wall, with credit to Haim Ginott's Teacher and Child

A VIEW OF THE WORLD

I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am a decisive element in my life.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a human, I possess tremendous power to make another life's miserable or joyful.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a human humanize for de-humanized.