Showing posts with label Dr. Haim Ginott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr. Haim Ginott. Show all posts

Thursday, March 10, 2022

hurt or heal

 
 

 
 
 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 deescalated,
and a person is humanized or dehumanized. 
 
If we treat people as they ought to be, 
we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
 
 


~ Attributed in various places to both
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
and in others to Dr. Haim Ginott
art by Rodrigo Gaya Villar
 with thanks to Mystic Meanderings