"He sees nothing but a seashell of a man"

[theladyrose]

Nobody ever bothers to say "You're an absolutely fabulous person and I am grateful that I know you" anymore. That was really the point of my last entry. There's this awful trend of not acknowledging all of the good work people do. I don't like seeing people wander in doubt about their own abilities. We don't love each other enough. All of us are capable of being rotten, but we also have the capability to turn ourselves in the direction we'd like to go. It seems like such a waste to question your potential when you've already got it.

This isn't quite related to what I was saying before, but I'll put it down anyway.

How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we're the origins of war. Not history forces nor the times nor justice nor the lack of it nor causes nor religions nor ideas nor kinds of government nor any other thing. We are the killers; we breed war. We carry it, like syphilis, inside. Dead bodies rot in the field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love another just a little? That's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such posibilities, my children; we could change the world.

-Eleanor of Aquitaine, James Goldman's the Lion in Winter

I'd like to imagine that the real Eleanor would have said that; it's possibly one of my favorite quotations ever. I am probably over-romanticizing her again.

And then there's another one that I like from the same play from Henry II:

We are the world in small. A nation is a human thing; it does what he do, for our reasons. Surely, if we're civilized, it must be possible to put the knives away. We can make peace. We have it in our hands.

HGTTG quotation of the day: This planet [Earth] has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Here's a second one for good measure, also from Douglas Adams: I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

If you're interested in joining my HGTTG caravan to the movie theater next Saturday afternoon (I haven't looked up the times yet) please tell me. Towels are not provided, so please bring your own :D

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[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

I have no idea either. It suddenly struck me the other day that I ought to tell that to people more often.