Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00440)

Subject: Quote...

"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."
   -- Haim Ginott


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