Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
Interpretation
True beauty comes from authenticity and love rather than physical appearance.
This quote emphasizes the idea that true authenticity and being 'Real' is achieved through the experiences of love and vulnerability, which may leave visible marks on one's physical form. It suggests that genuine beauty stems from emotional depth and understanding, rather than superficial standards imposed by those who may not comprehend the value of authenticity.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a graduation speech to encourage graduates to embrace their true selves.
Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.
He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter.
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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