L.m. MontgomeryWhich would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
About This Quote
This is a question that people have often pondered over the years. However, this quote does a good job of asking us to consider the true meaning of beauty. The first part of this quote implies that we should not care about our looks or how we look. Instead, we should focus on what makes us stand out from others.
In other words, we should focus on our inner beauty. The second part of this quote asks us to choose between being someone who is divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good. We can see these three things as being very different from one another.
We might assume that being divinely beautiful means being physically perfect, but it is much more than that. It simply means being a person who has a unique and admirable quality about them. Being dazzlingly clever means always doing well in school and getting the best grades possible.
There is nothing wrong with this, but it is not what makes someone truly beautiful. Angelically good means having a pure heart and doing all that you can to help those around you as well as those you do not know personally.
Source: Anne Of Green Gables
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