We are the decisive element

“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 whether 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.

~Haim G. Ginott 

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