I was at the station, looking at this building (click on photo to enlarge) and contemplating its character. It's rather handsome, in an Anglo-Japanese way - it looks symmetrical at first, then you start to notice that it isn't. I was thinking that it was a shame that it had to have such a messy foreground; then I thought that maybe the foreground was beautiful too, in its way - it is as it is.
Then it hit me - this is what's meant by "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"; but it's more accurate to say, "beauty is in the mind of the beholder". To put it in a nutshell - if you want to see beautiful things, cultivate a beautiful mind.
