Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them…

When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.

In today’s wordsIf we take people only as they are, we make them worse; if we treat them as what they should be, we help them become as much as they can be.