What Is Real Beauty

What Is Real Beauty?

Abstract:

The greatest 19th century Russian writer Leo Tolstoy once said: It is not beauty that endears, its love that makes us see beauty. I like this view very much. The sentence also means that, inner beauty is more important than outer beauty. However, what majority of person pursued is outward beauty, not inner beauty.

Appearence was given by our parents, if it is pretty or not, we can't do anything with it. What we have to improve is our inner; this is the most significant beauty.If we make effort to make our minds beautiful, we will be happier. Key words: human nature, inner beauty, outward beauty, real beauty

As the old saying goes in China，everybody was born with a heart for beauty. It is human nature that all of us should be fond of beauty. Many people even pursue objects and minds that they feel are beauty in all their life.

Today in China, with the rising of our living standard, people's requirement of beauty has been heightened accordingly. Some people spare no time, money and energy to concern about beautiful clothes, fashionable hair styles, and the decoration of their houses and even the improvement of their looks. But it seems to me, all these are more or less confined to the beauty in appearance, or rather, the outward beauty. Corresponding with the outward beauty, there exists another beauty that we call the inner beauty. In today’s China, people pay much attention to the outward beauty and neglect the inner beauty. When we walk on the street, we can often see many “spieces” with beautiful dress and fashion hair style, to the contrary, we see little of the behavior of helping others.

In my opinion, we shouldn't only pay attention to beautiful appearance and neglect the beautification of the mind and what we are after should be the perfect unity of the outward beauty and the inner beauty. As we all know, so far as objects and animals are concerned, there is only beautiful appearance to be mentioned, but to us human beings, although the outward beauty really matters, the inner beauty is much more important. This was confirmed by a famous Russian writer in words much like this: \"A person is not lovely for being beautiful but beautiful for being lovely.”

We should pay attention to our appearance. As we know, Premier Zhou Enlai affords an example of appearance in all his life. When he was a student, he hanged on a motto on the dressing mirror:”The face must be clean; Hair must be cut off; Clothes must be tidy; buttons must be buttoned up and so on”. Premier Zhou’s requirement for appearance is worth learning.

Although the outward beauty matters, the inner beauty is much more important. German writer Goethe ever said:”the outward beauty can just satisfy people for a moment, but only the inner beauty can last for a long time”.

What is real beauty? In order to answer this question, here, I'd like to quote two typical instances and I'm sure, my dear friends, from them you'll find out what real

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beauty is.

Recently I learned from the radio an unpleasant incident about a well known singer. She is very charming with a sweet beautiful voice and very famous for singing the song \"Devotion of Love\". Not long ago, she was invited to Zhejiang Province to give performance. The moment she was to appear on the stage, she suddenly asked for more reward. Worse still, after her request was satisfied, she didn't begin to sing at once. Instead, she took her time to count all the money piece by piece. Thus she kept the audience waiting for half an hour. So when she at last showed up and started to sing \"Devotion of Love\have any devotion of love. You are not qualified to sing this song! \"Hearing this, the singer stopped singing and began to shout abuses with her finger pointed at the man. At that time the whole audience burst into an uproar.

How disappointed her keen listeners were when they learned this! It is the singer herself who spoiled her beautiful image in the eyes of others.

Now, I'm coming to another true story. It's about a poor, ordinary looking old woman. She was a widow without any children, living barely from hand to mouth by picking odds and ends from rubbish heaps. However, she took in more than ten homeless orphans successively and managed to bring them up. Every day she labored from morning till night. In order to earn as much money as possible to raise the children and to keep them in school, she even went to a hospital regularly to sell her blood. She got so weak for the loss of blood that she sometimes fell in a faint on her way home.

When asked why she chose to burden herself with so many children, she smiled and simply answered, “Oh, I love children and I like to have their company.”

Though the old woman was poor materially, she was full of affection and rich in spirit. She was loved dearly by her children. She was also highly appreciated by the local government, and truly respected by people in her community.

Maybe you can't help wondering, \"What makes that ordinary woman so extraordinary?\" It is nothing else but her inner beauty, her true devotion of love without any thought of rewarding. What a sharp contrast there is between the great

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woman and the selfish singer.

So, to answer the question \"What is real beauty?” I declare definitely, it is the beauty lying in one's heart of hearts and embodied in his actions and deeds, that is, the inner beauty!

Where does the real beauty come from？I think the real beauty comes from internal mind; it’s immutable and can not be fading away with the older appearance; it will not only hide in the hearts of people with the beautiful appearance. Therefore, beauty also exists in the ugly objects in appearance. Don’t think the outward beauty is the real beauty for ever. The beauty of appearance is more like a flash in the span, and only the beauty of mind can last long. Only can one person win people’s applause and admire by continuously enhanceing personal value and taste, making up for the disadvantages by some other’s advantages and maintaining humorous conversation, elegant temperament, guileless civilization language in the life and work.

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