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What is Beauty?

August 9, 2010
By frogsof2015 SILVER, Farmington, Minnesota
frogsof2015 SILVER, Farmington, Minnesota
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Favorite Quote:
you got nothing to lose if you have nothing to begin with.


What is beauty?

Is it a brush of mascara, a line of eye liner, a glob of foundation, a coat of lipstick, a dust bunny of blush numerous strokes of eye shadow?

beau-ty [byoo-tee] n. the quality present in a thing or person that gives pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind.

Somehow, I think the dictionary got it wrong. Beauty is not thirty dollars worth of makeup; beauty is not the most expensive, coolest clothes on the market. No, beauty is what's on the inside. Beauty is being kind, being the ideal person. It's not something you can see, it's something you believe within the actions of that person.

People can spend all the money trying to look perfect, but in the end that truly is not what matters.


The author's comments:
So many people try to fix their looks but I believe it's pointless.

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on Aug. 12 2010 at 3:29 pm
Thesilentraven PLATINUM, Mableton, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;il piu nell&#039; uno,&quot; (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)<br /> <br /> &quot;Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality&quot; ~Emily Dickinson<br /> <br /> &quot;The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain&quot; <br /> ~Kahlil Gibran

I agree; people are too hung up on the external look. I dislike the fact that people wear makeup. It's just another way of condoning the idea that the outside is more important than the inside.