Photo Love {Inspiration}: Finding beauty via Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

What do you consider beautiful in someone else?

Audrey Hepburn is quite clearly beautiful to many of us.  She also universally remains a style icon and the epitome of class and elegance.  I saw these pictures from a current collection of her pictures: “Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon” which is at the National Portrait Gallery in London through October 18 and was mesmerized from pictures throughout her life.

She knew that beauty is certainly subjective.  Perhaps someone’s dimpled smile is his winning feature while another person’s most beautiful feature are her contemplative hazel green eyes.  But I love how she told us to forego looking at the usual features and to really look inside someone. Any person (not just a woman!) is more than just her outward appearance, even if it is a beautiful one.  Her beauty is also represented by her heart which includes her capacity for compassion and love.  Perhaps not all of us are naturally joyful and generous and loving.  But we all possess the potential to love and love deeply.  Then we all can become beautiful as well.

Have a lovely week!