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Depending on what one see as beauty makes the question more a case of: Is beauty good looks or something which is or could be outwardly hidden and consequently comes from within?

The majority of people have differing opinions on what is beautiful, what I might find beautiful, you might not and visa versa, be it in appearance or in a person's basic character. For that matter I might think a closed rose is more beautiful than an open one, but you might think the opposite to be the case.

Is beauty something that is purely down to a person's physical appearance or is it something deeper?

When you first meet a person like it or not it is there physical appearance that attracts you to them, but without your feeling an attraction to their inner person you will never find them truly beautiful.

Putting the boot on the other foot, you could well meet someone who you find yourself attracted to, who you might not initially find physically that attractive, but are drawn to by their inner beauty.

Beauty it is said is only skin deep. Well in one way this is true if you are so shallow as to look no further than this then more fool you.

A friend of mine married a really handsome man; from a woman's point of view he was beautiful, and believes me he was very stunning in physical appearance! Now about five years down the line he had a really horrific accident and had burn wounds that left his face scarred beyond recognition. Did she leave him because he had lost his looks, no, why because to her his inner beauty would always outweigh looks that could only have faded with age anyway. She married the inner person not just his skin deep only looks.

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