the unspoken truth
Post on 07-Jul-2015
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They need you.
Especially the ones that act and look
different from you.
All of them.
They see what you think you hide.
If you said the wrong thing…
If you feel confused by other’s reactions to what you say…
You need to look at yourself…
And say I am not perfect.
Learning is a two way street.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
They learn from you…
And you can learn from them.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the
audience is deaf.
Walter Lippman
You learn to trust.
You learn to love easily.
You learn to forgive and forget.
…and you learn to say what you feel…
Not what you think others want to
hear…
Or what is politically correct…
Because the truth is…
we know.
And so do they.
Communication leads to community, that is, to
understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May
Apologize
But to your coworkers for what you have done
…not just to yourself.
…and what you didn’t.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make
you feel that you too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Apologize
Because they need to know- not that we are infallible, but that we don’t think we are.
…when you say the wrong thing to a class
Apologize
…because they are watching and we are at this moment more important in their lives than they (we) know.
Because they are always watching
Who talks to you and who you choose to talk to…
What you say and what you don’t.
And the conversation that transpires from it.
The power is with you.
The power…
to Make
Or
Break them.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how
you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner
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