New Year's Eve is ticking away and soon it will be another year. Looking back it seems like the last year has gone by so quickly and so slowly at the same time. To start the new year off, I thought I'd post a quote from a brilliant man and a few thoughts on it:
G.K. Chesterton said, "Modesty is always beautiful."
G.K. Chesterton presents a very nice thought and when you think the quote over you realize he's not just talking about outward appearance. G.K. Chesterton is also referring to the beauty of the actions of a person. If you really think about it, a person who isn't a showoff is a much more pleasant person. To act with modesty creates kinder feeling toward you and you become someone others are more attracted to. When eyes behold a kind person, they tend to see the beauty in that person. There is a natural attraction to people who are kind and modest.
When a person's actions are modest it becomes part of their personality. Most people tend to dress in styles that reflects their personalities. When modesty becomes part of a person's personality the person tends to dress modestly. Modesty is always beautiful. When a girl dresses with modesty she is truly dressing with beauty; she is dressing to attract to herself, not her clothing or her body.
Attractive and beautiful are words that have very different meanings, but you could substitute "attractive" for "beautiful" in G.K. Chesterton's quote and the meanings become very similar: "Modesty is always attractive," "Modesty is always beautiful." I believe both are definitely true and I think it's safe to conclude that modesty attracts to a person's beauty, both inward and outward.
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