Thursday, April 5, 2007

What is Real Beauty?


Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley said:
"We are God's children, and if we ever got that through out heads thoroughly and understood that completely, we would never do a small thing, we would never say a cross word. We would not use bad language. We would not criticize anybody. We would love everyone the way the Savior loves us. 'As I have loved you, love one another.'"
I think that's what true beauty is. It's not the clothes you wear or your hairstyle or having perfectly manicured nails--it's important to take care of ourselves, but that's not what true beauty is. True beauty is realizing we are children of God and acting accordingly.
The world's perception of beauty has become really distorted. (Want to see something interesting? Watch this short film: Evolution.)
The world would have us think that physical beauty is what matters, but it's not. Cleanliness, kindness, gentleness, righteousness--those are what make us beautiful.
Roald Dahl said in his book The Twits, "A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
Beauty is as beauty does.

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