In George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle says to Professor Higgins' friend Pickering:-
"You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will, but I know I can be a lady to you because you always treat me as a lady, and always will."
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Often, treatting people as what we believe people must be, is the first and necessary step to ensure that they become.
Bernard Shaw was a genius!
Accept the person for who he/she is rather than what he/she is. Bottomline it is acceptance in true intrinsic and extrinsic values.
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