"I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don't like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke 'em. By smiling, I think I've made more friends than if I was the other way."

-Ella Fitzgerald

Music Humor
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The Ugly Duckling Syndrome

"I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the ugly duckling."

-Hans Christian Andersen

The ugly duckling was not really ugly at all, he was just different. The other ducks teased and pecked and even bit him until the ugly duckling flew away. He wandered around for a year, and was treated as an outcast everywhere. In the Spring, he saw a group of swans on a lake, and wanted very much to join them. As he swam out toward them, he was astounded to notice his reflection in the water - he was a swan! The other swans welcomed him warmly, and found him to be beautiful.

Most of us go through times when we feel different from those around us. These are painful and lonely times, but it doesn't mean there is anything wrong with us. Like the ugly duckling, we will come into a time when we will be loved. All the pain and loneliness we have felt will help us fully appreciate the acceptance when we find it.

To read the full story of the ugly duckling, click here:
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Words Heal
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Those are good, Beaumont.

"Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration"

--Niccolo Machiavelli

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

-Roald Dahl

Happy Thoughts
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/6910324

"There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty."

-Antoine P. Berryer

Women Humor
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/12783910

"Trust not too much to an enchanting face."

-Virgil

Wisdom And Advice Humor
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/16331232

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

-Francis Bacon: "Essays" (1625), 'Of Beauty'

Dimension And Measurement Humor
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/14078641

"Appearances often deceive."

-English saying

"The good Lord must prefer plain looking people, because he made so many of them."

-Abraham Lincoln

American Presidents Humor
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/12330570