THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SIDES
The most beautiful sides of human beings are their insides. Here’s a collection of ideas about beauty inside our hearts and souls.
Are you satisfied inside or do you have voids to fill? And which condition is better for you? Justine Musk explores this question in her post, “is it scarcity complex, or a call to adventure?”
There are opinions on both sides. Some believe the key to inner joy is contentment. Musk believes it is better to yearn so that you can embark on a life adventure to reach higher places. I believe we are best with both.
Here are some classic and some new ideas we gathered about inner beauty.
“There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other people, talk to the birds… but I say to you, why should you dismantle your home?
…. A truly enlightened soul is strong enough, is bright enough to live and shine through, even in a beautiful house! ... A bright and beautiful soul can shine forth even from inside an equally beautiful surrounding.”
“As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
“We see the beauty within and cannot say no.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.”
Video: The Man That Gets Away.
“There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."
― Benjamin Franklin
“It's a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a difference frequency.”
― Cameron Diaz
Read more about Beautiful Insides, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including Beautiful Inside Stories, Beauty Inside Ancient Cores, Beautiful Insides to Admire & Taste, Intimate Surreal Insides, and Inside the Best Places Now.
Get busy and enter the BN Competitions, Our theme this week is Beautiful Insides. Send in your images and ideas. Deadline is 11.17.13.
Also, check out our special competition: The Most Beautiful Sound in the World! We are thrilled about this effort, together with SoundCloud and The Sound Agency. And we can’t wait to hear what you’ve got!
Photo Credits:
1. Courtesy of Glad.is.
2. Travis Lee.
3. Courtesy of Wildenstein. Woman on Porch by Richard Diebenkorn.
4. Bruce Whitney. X-ray of Chrysanthemum.
5. Courtesy of Fine Art America. Stained Glass, by Tautvydas Davainis.
6. Gonzalo Bénard. Silent Skins.
7. Courtesy of Generosity Movement.
8. Rianna. “Unzip Your Inner Beauty”
9. Gonzalo Bénard. The Void.
10. Mark Erich Drechsler.
11. A Little Resource.
