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