This month’s precept is “What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. -Sappho

I think RJ Palacio put this precept in her book Wonder, because August (a boy with a different face than you and me) didn’t think he was beautiful or able to fit in because of his face. I think that August doesn’t need approval from people at his school or neighbourhood. August should be himself and he shouldn’t care what other people think because most of the time people will learn to accept you, if you be yourself.

What this precept means to me is that if someone or something is beautiful, then it’s good. But if you think that you’re only good and that you’re ugly, then you can try to believe that you really are beautiful on the inside. It doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside. Then you will soon accept who you are and that you are beautiful no matter what you look like on the outside.