Can Beauty Be A Source Of Joy?
But beauty is a spiritual matter, and as such it is no respecter of social status. Beauty opens onto the world beyond our private concerns.
Wendy Farley • Beguiled by Beauty
That is because beauty isn’t actually what you look like; beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order.
Tressie McMillan Cottom • Thick: And Other Essays
Contemporary notions of beauty are ridiculous. Our standards for what’s attractive are incredibly un-Stoic in that we prize and extol things people have almost no control over—high cheekbones, complexion, height, piercing eyes.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter le... See more
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
If Viktor Frankl was able to see Beauty piercing through the bleakness of a Nazi concentration camp, it must indeed be everywhere, available at all times. Beauty is like the air surrounding you; you can breathe it in whenever you need to.
Barry Michels • Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & Unleash Your Soul's Potential
PRINCIPLE 1: BEAUTY CAN ONLY BE SEEN BY THE HEART Confucius, the ancient Chinese philosopher, said, “Everything has Beauty, but not everyone sees it.” How can we train ourselves to perceive the Beauty around us? We have to stop looking only at the surface of things. Real Beauty moves surreptitiously underneath the surface of the visible world.