"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 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."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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For seven days try one simple experiment: feel your blood, your bones, your flesh, your body, filled with sadness ― every cell of the body sad; dark night around you; very heavy, depressed; not a single ray of light; no hope, gloomy, just as if you are going to die. Life is not throbbing in you;…
Six loads of laundry, homemade Italian spaghetti, a clean house, and now I can knit stripes.
There just may be housewife hope for me yet. ;)
Me:
I think I'll read The Fault in Our Stars again.
Heart:
Don't you dare.
Heart:
Don't you dare do that to me again.
Weapon of Mass Instruction
Built from a welded frame atop a 1979 Ford Falcon, Raul Lemesoff drives around the streets of Buenos Aires distributing free books to anybody who wants to be assaulted with some serious learnin’.
As is this!
