Quote of the day

[celticdragonfly]

Listen, here's what I think. I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.

I like it.

Comments

[eagleclaw.livejournal.com]

Chocolate. Excellent work!

delightful

[curiousmay9.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. One of my favorite movies.

[callibr8]

What a lovely, positive, affirming thought. Thanks for sharing it!

I didn't recall that the quote came from Chocolat. I too found myself enjoying the movie greatly, even though the particular setting was literally quite foreign to me. It helped, though, that I saw it in especially good company. Makes *any* movie better! :)

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

It rather depends on what tempts a man. If it's spiritual sins: Pride, bigotry, hatred, envy; then his resistance, all unseen, is heroic.

I'm reminded of the man in Zenna Henderson's "The Closest School" (this is c. late 1950s) who had a gut dislike for foreigners, for those with different skin colors. But he knew what that led to, saw what it did in the world, and so he bent over backward to help the fuzzy pink and green people at his schoolhouse door.

Not because he accepted them, but because he knew he what he had to deny in himself.

A very good man, in my book.