"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
"All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil."
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Source: Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization. Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.
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