“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have
known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their
way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and
an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a
deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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The sun rising over the Devils
Casting its gold among the trees
That is beauty
The bright blue of an Oregon sky
On a spring day!
That is beauty
The smile of a child
The smooth white, gold, brown, black, olive skin of youth
That is beauty
Eyes that sparkle with life and joy
That is beauty
So too
The face of one who is dealing with cancer
Where compassion and love still live
So too
The face of one who has dealt with loss
A death, a failure
Where hope and acceptance still appear
Some beauty doesn’t just happen
It is made
Forged out of life
It is found in wrinkles
and tears
in gnarled hands
in bodies deformed by cancer, and accident, and age
it is found in hard earned wisdom
and in compassion and patience
and we know it
when we see it
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