To define inner beauty is to remember that beauty is not only what you see on the outside!
I imagine that a lot of people, and especially women, in the world would wish at times that they had had the luck to have been born beautiful just like all those wonderful models that they see on the cat walks, in magazines and on film so I wanted to write this article to try and make the ones that haven’t had that luck to feel a bit better with themselves and to also try and put certain things into perspective!
The main question to ask is what do we conceive as being beautiful? When we look at a great painting we comment on how beautiful it is. When we see a cascading waterfall we also make the same comment and this is all very easy because all we have to focus on is on what we see with only our eyes as neither a painting nor a waterfall have any character or feelings of their own. But then when we are faced with having to make a comment on how beautiful a person or character such as Cruella De vil of ‘A hundred and one Dalmations’ is, because she has always been depicted as being beautiful in looks, how come it is that it is quite a bit harder for us to make the same flattering comment and acknowledge her beauty?
The reason why it is much harder for us to do this is because while she may be beautiful on the outside with her furs, her manicured looks and her ever perfect hair style, she is so horrible in her character that we just can’t bring ourselves to say that she is beautiful – in fact most of us would end up describing her as a simply horrible character, which she is.
So it is quite clear to see that beauty if not just on the surface. It has to be perceived on the outside but most importantly there has to be something of beauty on the inner surface as well. If we take a reverse example of a character such as (again I revert to Walt Disney) Dumbo who was never intended to be a beauty and indeed was portrayed as being slightly deformed with his overly large ears, we all remember how we thought that he was so beautiful and so endearing and didn’t even notice his ears any more as his sweet character won over everything else.
This is proof that a warm and sweet character can add up piles of points towards beauty than just beauty on its own.
I am sure that there have been many times during your life when you have seen a couple where either the man or the woman were exceptionally beautiful but that the other partner was completely the opposite and you may have questioned how this couple came to be. Well the simple answer is that the partner that maybe doesn’t look so beautiful on the outside has beauty beyond comparison on the inside. These qualities can include things such as patience, understanding, warmth, compassion, sense of humour, kindness and a great abundance of love to give. How can beauty just on its own match up to all of these qualities.
Remember that no matter how beautiful a person can be when they are young that the beauty qualities that they have will not last forever as with age, even with plastic surgery, those qualities will all begin to disintegrate but yet the inner qualities that they have will last forever and no amount of time will be able to make them die.
Did you ever ask yourself how come Paul Newman stayed so happily married to Joanne Woodward for so many years when she was no great beauty on the outside? Well it was obviously because she was some great lady on the inside and obviously Paul Newman, who had had the chance to get to know most of the beauties of his time, decided that the beauty that Joanne Woodward offered to him was beyond comparison!
I imagine that a lot of people, and especially women, in the world would wish at times that they had had the luck to have been born beautiful just like all those wonderful models that they see on the cat walks, in magazines and on film so I wanted to write this article to try and make the ones that haven’t had that luck to feel a bit better with themselves and to also try and put certain things into perspective!
The main question to ask is what do we conceive as being beautiful? When we look at a great painting we comment on how beautiful it is. When we see a cascading waterfall we also make the same comment and this is all very easy because all we have to focus on is on what we see with only our eyes as neither a painting nor a waterfall have any character or feelings of their own. But then when we are faced with having to make a comment on how beautiful a person or character such as Cruella De vil of ‘A hundred and one Dalmations’ is, because she has always been depicted as being beautiful in looks, how come it is that it is quite a bit harder for us to make the same flattering comment and acknowledge her beauty?
The reason why it is much harder for us to do this is because while she may be beautiful on the outside with her furs, her manicured looks and her ever perfect hair style, she is so horrible in her character that we just can’t bring ourselves to say that she is beautiful – in fact most of us would end up describing her as a simply horrible character, which she is.
So it is quite clear to see that beauty if not just on the surface. It has to be perceived on the outside but most importantly there has to be something of beauty on the inner surface as well. If we take a reverse example of a character such as (again I revert to Walt Disney) Dumbo who was never intended to be a beauty and indeed was portrayed as being slightly deformed with his overly large ears, we all remember how we thought that he was so beautiful and so endearing and didn’t even notice his ears any more as his sweet character won over everything else.
This is proof that a warm and sweet character can add up piles of points towards beauty than just beauty on its own.
I am sure that there have been many times during your life when you have seen a couple where either the man or the woman were exceptionally beautiful but that the other partner was completely the opposite and you may have questioned how this couple came to be. Well the simple answer is that the partner that maybe doesn’t look so beautiful on the outside has beauty beyond comparison on the inside. These qualities can include things such as patience, understanding, warmth, compassion, sense of humour, kindness and a great abundance of love to give. How can beauty just on its own match up to all of these qualities.
Remember that no matter how beautiful a person can be when they are young that the beauty qualities that they have will not last forever as with age, even with plastic surgery, those qualities will all begin to disintegrate but yet the inner qualities that they have will last forever and no amount of time will be able to make them die.
Did you ever ask yourself how come Paul Newman stayed so happily married to Joanne Woodward for so many years when she was no great beauty on the outside? Well it was obviously because she was some great lady on the inside and obviously Paul Newman, who had had the chance to get to know most of the beauties of his time, decided that the beauty that Joanne Woodward offered to him was beyond comparison!
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