What's your definition of beauty?

Question

Mine is either a picture of a newborn baby or the small forest in my yard. It gets so pretty at dawn and dusk. It's almost breathtaking. What's yours?

Answer 1

Pleasing to the eye, 24/7, and be enjoyed by the young and
the old the world over.

Answer 2

*WARNING. MAY SOUND CORNY/CHEESEY/WANNABE PHILOSOPHER...Y.***

Ahh. Beauty.
I would think that the word beauty is described in itself.

To me, when I hear the word "beauty," I automatically think of a pure heart.
If you really think about it, outer beauty is temporary. The inside may change too, but it's more meaningful.

If you see someone GORGEOUS, then you may think, "wow. That's beauty right there." whereas, if you see an old woman helping a young boy ride his bike with such tenderness and patience, you may think to yourself, "wow. That old lady is really nice," But rarely will you think, "She is the most beautiful person on earth,"

I admit, even I probably wouldn't think that. But...Well I'm not sure what I'm saying anymore, but I think that beauty is just when you are pure and clean.

As the newborn baby: since the baby has no sins, guilts, debts, hatreds, etc.

Answer 3

I am sure we can compile a huge list of things based on our individual like and dislike.

No one would disagree that inner beauty of a person is the most honorable and compared to any external beauties.

But I will have an entirely different opinion which I would like to share with you all. To me the most beautiful thing is the true knowledge. Knowledge, that can purify us from the dense dark forest of illusions from our heart. Yes, transcendental knowledge that gives us self realization is the most beautiful thing, in my opinion.

Answer 4

The moonlight being reflected on the sea, walking through a forest after the sunrise smelling the humidity on the ground...listening to birds chanting songs of peace and joy... looking at my mom smiling.

Answer 5

Beauty for me is a like a calm sea as the sun start to shine in the East. It brings a new hope and a new day to start with a cheerful smile.

Thanks for asking. Have a great day!

Answer 6

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder:

http://www.chinapage.org/story/beauty.html

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - Origin:

This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek. It didn't appear in its current form in print until the 19th century, but in the meantime there were various written forms that expressed much the same thought. In 1588, the English dramatist John Lyly, in his
Euphues and his England, wrote:

"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote."

Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love's Labours Lost, 1588:

Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues

Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote:

Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion

beauty is in the eye of the beholderDavid Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:

"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

The person who is widely credited with coining the saying in its current form is Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (née Hamilton), who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of 'The Duchess'. In Molly Bawn, 1878, there's the line "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59100.html

Have you ever noticed that good looking girls usually hang out together with other good looking girls, but when it come to couples the lousiest looking guy dates a Pretty girl and mostly vice versa too.

http://anthonysmirror.blogspot.com/2005/11/beauty-is-in-eyes-of-beholder.html

Beauty in eyes of beholder, study confirms:

WASHINGTON: When it comes to something pleasant, it seems that the phrase "easy on the eyes" may hold more truth than earlier believed, for a study has found that objects or people appear more attractive when the mind can process their looks faster.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2037080.cms

Scientists ponder beauty and the eye of the beholder:
Evidence increasingly suggests the human brain is hard-wired for aesthetics.

http://www.sigidiart.com/Docs/beauty.htm

I will give a simple explanation of my own. I will go
to a blind man and describe the beauty of a top cine
actress. Can any amount of description ake him realize
how beautiful she is? He needs eyes to see and
understand for him self.

"When candles are off, all women are fair!"

Answer 7

Beauty is the sense you get when things just "fit", when you know this is how things "ought" to be, even if you can't explain it. The most beautiful things for me are music and poetry and my children's laughter. But visually, anytime I take a drive up the coast - that's beauty.

Peace to you.

Answer 8

Nature lets us regard as beautiful what it needs for its purposes. Thus it has been proven that those female bodies that are most fit to carry children attract men most.
When we enjoy flowers, we help them to survive by not wishing to destroy them and protectimg them.
Flowers are not as tough as thistles and other weeds, so we destroy those around flowers before they overcome them. Weeds don't need our protection, as they always take over again. So they don't look as pretty.
Animals, like alligators, who are not endangered species, do not look attractive to us, neither do snakes.
Thus beauty is just part of nature's scheme. There is no absolute beauty, nature only makes us behold things as beautiful, to carry out its plans.

Beauty is what moves us, simple as that. ;-)

Answer 9

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the eye is the window of your soul, so one can conclude that beauty and soul are interrelated.
" Love is beauty in the Soul " St. Augustine

Answer 10

Definitely inner beauty. Nothings better then kindness on this earth.