Are You Able to See Beauty Anywhere and in Any Situation?

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Victor Frankl, who wrote, "Man's Search for Meaning," was a an inmate in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII. In his book he tells of how his captors would give him a bowl of filthy water with a fish head in it as a meal. He trained himself, however, to see the beauty in this meal rather than the horror of it. Frankl attributed his ability to see beauty anywhere as the reason he was able to survive the atrocities of the death camps. He notes that if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, emotions and eventually into our lives. By embracing an attitude of appreciation, we can transcend the most awful circumstances. How about you? What do you think of this philosophy? Do you use it? Has it worked miracles for you? What are your thoughts?