What is beauty?

So here I am sitting in 4th floor flat, listening to "Songs in the key of life", windows open looking at faint impressions of clouds outside. I had two wonderful women flirt with me on the way home which adds to this moment. Is it is nirvana ? Is it happiness? Is it beauty? I do not know but I am feeling good. So what is beauty? Is it the "Birth of Venus "? A child hugging you when you come home? The way the light falls on girl? Is it sitting on Oswald Beach West listening to the Pacific Ocean crashing, while the sun warms your face? So what is beauty to you? Let your opinions roll...its an open forum.

Have you been smoking the funny stuff again? I think one of the most beautiful things in the world is when my kid wakes up in a good mood, with a smile on her face and says, "Good morning, Mama."

I always wondered about the unit of beauty. And someone told me it's measured in milli hallon, but I was not yet able to confirm this.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Margaret Wolfe Hungerford).

Source.

As I always say, grass makes the world look greener!

fixed

Ah I have Itunes on and now Krüder and Dörfmiester just came on f**king awesome!

you can never
go home
anymore...

@jennyl
Nope I ran out about two weeks ago.
Those offering PM me .haha

The way that light reflects from gold bullion.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'

I always hated Keats.

According to today's Times

This is beauty...Gorgeous sunny ski slopes !!

@Dostoyevsky

Is that Garden State?

...its Steven Gerrard scoring in injury time of last years FA Cup final...

I think the thing/person looks beautiful if it matches/achieves one or more of your morals/ideals/desires. For sure your morals can contradict with your desires...then you got mixed feelings.

Even the ugliest, fattest, and the most crippled woman in the world will look beautiful to you if she is your beloved mother/sister...or even if it was your love one day for some reason. and the most beautiful woman in the world shall look shitty and ugly to you if you have a bad history with her.

A vacation in a carribean island will not produce much fun, and you will not see any beauty around if you are with the wrong person, or you know you have left someone in need for you behind!

I think images/shapes quickly attracts us as the easiest to notice form of beauty, however, it is the shallowest to affect us later in time.

A spring sunset reflected off clouds in colors without names behind willow trees in their veil of greenish-yellow new buds.
The ocean off Cancun: Ivory sand, blue sky, tall white clouds, turqouise water.
The same family smile on the faces of my mother, my aunts and my children at a big reunion.
The view from the descent at Irschenberg heading south towards the Alps.
The view from the top of Half-Dome at Yosemite.
Hmmm, sounds like nature is beauty.

Beauty - anything that makes your heart swell with joy.

It's when you get to see a loved one after being apart for a long time and realizing how amazing they are and how lucky you are to have them in your life.

a perfectly formed bottom.

I don't know what makes something beautiful, but today beauty for me is the sun shining and Corinne Bailey Rae's voice in Trouble Sleeping .

I like Ham's description.

i love this question. i once took a class on the philosophy of beauty and all semester what we did is basically discuss this question.

Beauty is a loaf of bread that has risen just perfectly in the oven, browned to the perfect golden hue and scents my entire flat.

Beauty is the gap between a cute girls two front teeth.

Well its starting to storm here and it reminds me of growing up (one of the few good memories). In the northern part of Texas (plains) in spring after a harsh thunderstorm comes one of the most wonderful smells. Its fresh and reminds one one what purity is. I use to think as a kid ( catholic kid) that it was gods way of cleaning the filth from the earth.

When I was walking to work this morning, it was dawn and as I looked straight ahead I saw the pink orangeish sunrise, I knew there was going to be a storm tonight. I love seeing the different colors in the sky, that's beauty. When I was a little girl my grandmother used to wake me up at early hours, help me dress, serve me breakfast and warm milk. We would go out to the balcony together and watch the sunrise and its reflection onto the sea. The salty smell of the sea, that's another beauty. The sight of the sea another beauty.
It's raining heavily over here too and I am sure it's going to smell really fresh tomorrow morning, I agree with you Perdido the smell of the trees and grass after a storm is a beautiful smell.
I just did my evening shopping and I almost knocked over numerous water bottles and this really handsome guy appeared from nowhere and caught them in mid air. I said "oops", he smiled and said "oops". I think having funny and entertaining moments in life are beauty too.

Madonna is hardly a cute girl anymore.

Beauty is seeing carrots in the bathroom without micropoos.

Beauty is a Stoke fan swimming in the North Sea

























wearing concrete armbands.

Don't be so judgemental. You must learn to love the carrots, micropoos and all. It's comments like yours that make carrots self-concious and bitter, and bullimic.

Beauty is not having to scroll to read a para-punchline.

Just an observation about life in general, but I've noticed over the years, as you do, that girls with a gap between their front teeth have a rather beautiful habit of being the most perverted. I've not done any scientific studies on the matter. But, I'm prepared to accept copious quantities of funding and volunteers to further the process of science and human understanding. That's just the kind of generous guy I am.

I had a gap between my teeth as a little girl but then I wore braces so you can't see the gap anymore.

@Lifeisabuffet, is that like taking one pace forwards, or what?

Do you like Marmite?

You mean the TT screenname Marmite or the regular Marmite?

THE Marmite. The stuff you smear on thighs toast.

The thought of marmite smeared on anything just made my gag reflex go off. I guess that pretty much destroys my chance of a possibly hot love affair with sin.

mine too, and I don't even have a gag reflex.

What is beauty? Beauty is one of those "just right" poos you do where it comes out in one cable, clean and quick and no splash back. That is a beautiful thing.

cable? You shitting strings again, Timmeh? Remember the death inside of you thread...

If you're not doing it with sin, you're not doing it properly!

What is beauty? I think this qualifies!

Wise words from a wise man.

I like Marmite but not on my thighs...

Evil, evil, evil... nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.

New journal, numbers 2B, 4B, 9B pencils , and looking across the Donau at the Aldtstadt. I know I was that guy this afternoon.

My idea of beauty, must be still homesick from New Year :

Wonderful blue NJDQ. Your photo?

Perdido, thanks, it is my photo. Taken at Eilean Donan Castle on the way to the Isle of Skye (West coast Scotland) ... Magic !!

Marmite, definitely does you good, when you're being bad.

That could be sin's secondary motto.

A great sense of exhilaration today seeing I got a letter from home. I love recieving snail mail.