Quotes: "I am the decisive element" (Goethe)

"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 we are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." -- Goethe