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[fajrdrako]

I liked today's quote on 1day1thought:

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. - Salma Hayek

I find that people in our society are very suspicious of beauty, though they look for it everywhere.

I like the idea that beauty is 'liberating', which isn't a way I've thought of it.

But I do know that I like to see it.

Comments

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

As a very intellectual analytic person what I particularly appreciate about beauty is that it is non intellectual and defies analysis: it hits me directly with a physiological impact. Rare, but when I experience it I appreciate it with all my being.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, isn't it?

[omnivorously.livejournal.com]

And even if we can't break down exactly what causes that delicious, subjective, individual reaction, at least we have fun trying.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Music affects me that way, as well.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I still can't get over the first time I heard a Jaufre Rudel song, some 24 years ago. The fact that it was composed in the 1140s and still sent shivers up my spine.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well, beauty is beauty, whether it's visual or auditory.

You are much more musical than I am, but I can feel it in music, too.