Quote from Johann Wolfgang von 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 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.
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David McCullough
He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Wayne Dyer
The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proven in research studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes us feel more comfortable, peaceful, and even blissful. In fact, the role of most anti-depressants is to stimulate the production of serotonin chemically, helping to ease depression. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this! Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved!
Aristotle
"For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases or preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues...
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."
Neale Donald Walsch
Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
A Course in Miracles
Those who are healed become the instruments of healing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
A Course in Miracles
The only way to heal is to be healed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
