Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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