"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Your heart, not the object, determines beauty."
Today's Question
Do you believe beauty is inherent in the object itself, or does it exist within the gaze of the observer who discovers it?
A Victorian novelist on the 'Beautiful Gaze'
Margaret Hungerford believed beauty is a subjective value determined by the observer's state of mind, not a fixed property of an object.
In her novel, she wrote the famous line, 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.' The same scene looks completely different to one in love compared to one in despair. Our mindset creates the beauty we see.