ugliness

In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

You cannot have a beautiful life if you always focus on ugliness in others.

A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.

Isn__ that the way God works? She__ thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society.

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

We can all agree that children are ugly.

Whatever may happen, the memories of then will always remain, ever so sweetly with me, nothing to tarnish it. Not even the ugliness of reality.

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.

The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful.

You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.

This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.