What makes a person beautiful? Is it their physical appearance or their actions? I feel that I am a beautiful person both inside and out. I try to treat people right. I don't disrespect my parents, my neighbors, my friends, or even strangers. I was raised with manners and a code of morals. I am not religious but I still try to do unto others as I want to be treated.  Everyday though, I see ugliness around me. People with so many anger issues they don't even know how to send love or kindness out to the world? When did this world become so ugly?
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I know what you mean, I weep for mankind every night under a bed of snowflakes.  Just pulling your wang...mankind aint that bad, go hang about the maternity ward of a hospital and see the smiling happy people, watch fathers and sons coming home from a football game, see the smile on a girls face when she gets her first bra...your just being a bit negative, look for beauty and happyness, it's all around you.
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We have no way of knowing, on Y! Answers, what a person really looks like.  I've gotten some very nasty emails, and highly doubt that looks had anything to do with their remarks.  People who are going to be nasty, ought not to bother answering at all.  Most of us seem to be here for fun, to help others, and to brighten our day.
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you just lose your self confidence, i think you;re not really bad inside , because you think you are ugly ,you try to hurt people  i think you experienced that when you're not good looking people dont care about ur inner side ..so you want to act like this to take advantage on people ...am i right?
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Your son is beautiful just the way he is. \n\nBeauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy.\n\nTo see beauty is simply to learn the private language of meaning which is anothers life - to recognize and relish what it is!\n\nWhy languish in the shadow of a standard we cannot personify, an ideal we cannot live?
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Realize that everything that is hard, in the end makes us stronger.  \n If people call you ugly, realize how ugly they are for saying such awful things. True beauty truly does come from within.\n Educate yourself. Become powerful in your chosen profession. Work towards goals. These things will make your life feel more beautiful and will make you understand how ugly those comments are from those horrible people.
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I think you have a great attitude about all the vainity in the world. Unfortunantly others don't feel the same way. I believe everyone has a certain 'taste' and if people would take the time to get to know someone before judging them on their apperance the world would be much better off. I hope that my generation can influence that outlook on their kids so this doesn't get any worse. It's sad. Suicides, eating disorders, plastic surgery... all to obtain what we all think is perfection when in all reality we all percieve beauty differently!
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unfortunitly we live in a society where people judge before they get to know anything about a person. Depending on your looks you might get stared at,.. I know the feeling,.. i am Latin,.. thus i have a certain look that makes me seem tough,.. i am the nicest person you can come accross,but because of that i come accross to people as someone with an attitude... I have learned to just brush it off,.. although when people always assume you have an attitude its hard to just brush it off,.. \n\ni dont know what to tell you,.. all i can say is that i know how you are feeling,.. just ignore it,..
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You are beautiful just the way you are. \n\nBeauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy.\n\nTo see beauty is simply to learn the private language of meaning which is anothers life - to recognize and relish what it is!\n\nWhy languish in the shadow of a standard we cannot personify, an ideal we cannot live?
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every person on earth is beautiful.. there is no such thing as ugliness in the world!!
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Well, statistically personality tops high over looks. But to me, looks atracts me first but personality controls the attraction. I have looked at many girls and I chooses looks over them. However, their personalities are what affecting my attraction to them.\n\nSome girls may looked beautifully attractive but their bad personalities may disgraced God's gifts to them. They made their looks ugly in the eyes of me. \n\nSome other girls may looked unattractive but with kind hearts, they grace their looks with the shine of kindness.\n\nBeing a young and educated person makes feel that personality is the best not looks. But to be honest, some girls who are not quite attractive but have good and noble hearts do attract me but with intervals. I mean that I do not feel attracted to them because their not quite beautiful although are kind. For some beautiful girls but have unkind hearts, they also attract me with their good looks but their personalities make me rethink.\nI know that I am not being fair to everybody including myself but that is what happening now and I confidently believe that I will change. Experience will surely help along with knowledge.\n\nWell, like the wise ones had said, "Beauty is only skin-deep". Good personality is what making a living soul live happily not looks.\n\nI do not know if you understand which is really more important but I hope you will, just like me.\nBy the way, I do not act like I am attracted to others but in my heart, yes. Maybe it is my ego that made me do that.
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Remember Ursula Andress, the beautiful Swedish actress who was a Bond girl?  Look at her today.  Look at any beautiful woman from 10,20,30,40 years ago, they were all stunning, but we all age, we all lose that youthful beauty eventually.  Have you ever met someone who was very attractive then got to know them and found that their character was so unpleasant it made their physical appearance ugly?  Not only is physical beauty something that is transient, it really is in the eye of the beholder.  Real and lasting beauty lies in who you are, the way you express your self.  Think about the people you just like to be around; not because they 'look' good, but because they are fun, calming, sympathetic, vibrant, wise, amusing... qualities which can't be bought.  Many people believe that those who have beauty, good health or wealth must be the happiest.  It's not true is it?  Look at Micheal Jackson, Kate Moss.  The issue here is low self-esteem.  If you're self-esteem is based on your appearance it's no surprise you feel insecure, that is not a firm foundation for self-worth.  It is really sad that you would feel threatened by sharing the attention and affection of your own child with your husband.  Think about it.  I would recommend that you seek the help of a good therapist to help you get to the bottom of why you have this fragile self-esteem.  You need to build yourself up...from the inside.  I wish you all the best.
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it sounds like you have self esteem issues brought on by puberty and the idiots who seem to have so many unkind things to say to you. just because people tell you that you're unattractive doesn't mean it's true or that you have to believe it. they do it to everyone because they are insecure about themselves and if they chime in and pick on someone when she's feeling down they think they look cool. I've never seen you, but I'm sure you're not ugly. the only real ugly people are the ones who are ugly deep in their souls-- not the ones who aren't curvy or aren't thin or don't look like supermodels. also, don't call yourself dumb. if you give in and start calling yourself the names other people call you, you are just letting them win and you'll never get anywhere in life.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:  Different things are beautiful to different people.  For example, something about me may repulse just about everybody who's ever come into contact with me, but someone else could find that same repulsive thing "soooooo adorable."\n\nBeauty is only skin deep:  Superficially speaking, the most beautiful woman in the world....say, perfect body, perfect face, nothing out of place, absolutely nothing unattractive about her.......and THEN she opens her mouth.  And she very quickly becomes the ugliest thing EVER, because she's ugly "INSIDE."
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NOTHING.. I WOULDN'T CALL A PERSON UGLY B/C EVERYONE IS UNIQUE :)
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For the most part I agree with you but I think that being ugly or feeling ugly can not be easily catorgrized by simply saying that an ugly person can cope with life better. It depends on your defintion of coping and in what area. Some people who feel ugly are walking around broken and damamged and it affects other area's of their life. It affects their confidence, their ability to do things, and pursue certain avenues of life and if that means that they are coping with being ugly then it is not very healthy. I think that society squezzes beauty in to such a small box that many people suffer needlessly and become victims of society and the media at a very young age. But since you speak of reality, in reality anyone who sees themselves as ugly has deeper issues in life other than their apperance. And any man or woman who wants to be with a person based more so on beauty that character has issues as well. But personally when I was young I thought that I was dreadfully ugly I would walk past a mirror in a mall and cry. It was horrible and my expectations of how I should be treated was low because an ugly person should just be happy that someone wants to be with them. But I can not not compare this experience to what it is like to beautiful and have everyone think that same to me that sounds like a nightmare to.
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No one is ugly.... i think everyone has something special about them! Yeah we all may not be supermodels, or hunks.  I think everyone relies on looks to much now a days.... its not 100% about how a person looks! This is why we have girls with eating disorders, and all that other crappy stuff!!
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You look fine for your age to me.  \n\nHaving said that, don't rely on what I or anyone else thinks...looks aren't everything and even those who are physically "perfect" (which is very subjective) need to have more than that to back it up.  \n\nWorry about becoming a person of substance with a good education who treats other people as well as she would like to be treated.  Be kind, generous and compassionate.  Be independant and strong.  Have opinions, but respect those of others as well.  Be your own unique, special, wonderful self and don't take what anybody else says at face value.  Question everything and always search for your own truth.