Ugliness And Beauty

A pig contemplated his image in the
water of a pond. He found he looked so
ugly that he started to cry, and his
tears soon obscured his image. Then he
heard a voice from above:

"No creature is more beautiful than
you are, pig," it said.

"That's not true!" cried the pig. "I
am even uglier than a toad!"

"But there's nothing more beautiful
than a toad," the voice replied.

"You see! You're contradicting
yourself! A toad and I can't both be
the most beautiful of creatures at the
same time."

"All my creatures are most beautiful
to my eyes, and all at the same time,"
the voice said.

It was then that the pig understood
he was talking to God. He looked again
at his reflection in the water, and
this time his heart felt light and
there was a smile on his face.

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Ugliness and beauty are not
consistent qualities: even among people
not everyone agrees what constitutes
beauty and what doesn't.

Both ugliness and beauty are in the
eyes of the beholder.

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"Even if we travel the world in
search of beauty, we must first have it
in ourselves before we can find it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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