What is Beauty?

Beauty is a quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind. An "object of beauty" is anything that reveals or resonates with personal meaning. Religious and moral teachings focus on the "divinity" and "virtue" of beauty, and natural beauty as an aspect of spiritually and truth.

The opposite of beauty is "ugliness," the lack of beauty, which stimulates displeasure and engenders a deeply negative perception.

What is your idea of beauty? What would you change about yourself if you could? The logic of most people (especially women and girls) is that to be successful you must first be beautiful. Hollywood is leaving the wrong impression on young girls about being beautiful. It is a dangerous thought-pattern, because you are placing your self-esteem in the hands of others and what they think of you.

What is Beauty? It is not the physical appearance. It's what is found on the inside, what is in your heart. Humility is beauty. Security and self-esteem are beautiful. And knowing God brings beauty, and because He loves you and accepts you it brings security and self-esteem to your life.

--Patti Hallford

There are 49 verses found in the Bible on Beauty.
Ps. 27:4
... to behold the beauty of the Lord...

"Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." Ps. 29:2

Quotes

"Beauty is only skin deep." Proverb

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Merchant of Venice

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder." Al Berstein

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness." John Keats

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." Helen Keller