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how do you define beauty?

post #1 of 23
Thread Starter 
hey friends!
let me ask your definition of beauty You must have thought of it once at least
post #2 of 23
Beauty to me is the quality present in the thing or person that gives deep satisfaction of mind or intense pleasure.
post #3 of 23
Thread Starter 
wow nice definition..
post #4 of 23
Thread Starter 
i know a few:
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
and
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
post #5 of 23
"That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul." "Concerning the Spiritual in Art," Wassily Kandinsky, 1914 ...
post #6 of 23
I'll add some of my own thoughts: I suspect that we perceive something as beautiful if it strikes a responsive chord of affinity within our beings - maybe another way of saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty feeds the soul.
post #7 of 23
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thanks for adding good thoughts
post #8 of 23
Beauty comes in various forms, and it is viewed differently from person to person. My idea of beauty is someone who may or may not be "pretty", but yet they take care of themselves (skin, hair, nails), and have a confidence to go along with their overall look. You do not have to look like a model to be beautiful. It is all in the way you carry and present yourself. However, what is noted as being beautiful to one person, may be contrary to what is beautiful to another person. The bottom line is, do you feel beautiful? Whatever your answer is to that, is the true answer. We are what we feel we are, and everyone else's opinion is simply that, an opinion.
post #9 of 23
Owning your looks, I think, knowing who you are and what you like, being comfortable with that and making the best of it.

There is such a thing as physical beauty as well, of course - good bone structure and so on - but that's all genetical coincidence, when you get down to it, and there is so much more to it than that.
post #10 of 23
Regularity of features but also a certain luminosity, an aura that makes you enamoured of that person/object/animal .
post #11 of 23
Far beyond physical attractiveness, to me at least, beauty is a combination of (not necessarily conventional "good looks") expressive, witty or charming features, add a touch of intelligence, a sense of style, a certain self-confidence (but not necessarily that kind of self-confidence generic self-help books promote), a certain open-mindedness, combined with a care for both attire and personality

What do intelligence, sense of style, wit etc. have in common with beauty? Almost anything since, while these qualities do not necessarily generate or enhance physical beauty, they do add up to the overall qualities which eventually make me perceive a person as both beautiful, but also charming and complex
post #12 of 23
I have always felt that it's anything and everything that delights the senses.
post #13 of 23
Beauty is that which is emotionally or aesthetically enjoyable.
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post #15 of 23
From barely acknowledged to instantly life changing a definitive description of the essence of beauty seems as impossible to put into words as would be an all-encompassing description of time.

With a tip of the hat to St. Augustine, I seem to know intimately what both beauty is and what time is. But ask me to explain either and I am not fully able. All I really know is what they appear to do.
post #16 of 23
Beauty lies in the eyes of its viewer; some may see a mountain beautiful while some find the sea.
post #17 of 23
Purity, strength, cleanliness, consistency, logic
post #18 of 23
Beauty = femininity
post #19 of 23
True beauty makes your heart skip a beat and then beat faster for a while!
It can literally take your breath away.
post #20 of 23
As the famous saying goes beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To me their are two main types of beauty - one is physical and the other inner. To me inner beauty will always prevail over physical beauty. I once heard a saying:

"Its beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart."
post #21 of 23
Claudia Cardinale in 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
post #22 of 23
we were taught that "beauty" comes from within.... the character that you build within shows on the outside.
post #23 of 23
Can be defined in many ways...

It's bful when my 7 yr old niece throws her arms around my neck when I lift her up sleeping from bed in the mornings, eyes still closed...

With rgds to women, this which I heard yrs back is the most well defined saying - 'A girl, beautiful, is not in her face, but in her ways...'
Holds good only for a very few women I know. - my grandmother, my mother, my mom's first younger sister, my 1 wonderful friend in India are in this coveted list...I agree that there are many more women that fall in that category, but those are the few I had the fortune to know really well.
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