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1. Seek beauty.
2. Recognize the beauty in yourself.
3. Enhance your physical beauty. Emphasizing those features in you that are already beautiful.
4. Develop your inner beauty.
5. Create beauty outside of yourself.

What are some of the details of beautiful character?
First, the least popular virtue, temperance. As the psalmist writes: “What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? Yet you have made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and whatever swims the paths of the seas” (Ps 8, 5-9). In this light, man is above beast, but below the angels. He is a composite of spirit and matter - an angel, on the contrary, is pure spirit. Unlike man, an animal is not capable of spiritual beauty.
Chastity is a very important part of temperance. The proper context of the sexual act is that of a committed marriage relationship. Any sexual activity outside of this context is simply unchaste. There is nothing beautiful about the sexually promiscuous person, to use an extreme case.
Another part of the virtue of temperance is meekness, which restrains the onslaught of the emotion of anger. The intemperate tend to be rather cantankerous and capricious, for their hearts are set on convenience and ease, and yet life is full of inconveniences.
Humility moderates the love we have for our own excellence. The opposite of humility, namely pride, amounts to an inordinate or excessive love of one’s excellence. Such a person wishes to be more excellent than he is capable of being, and he will try not to depend on others where it is reasonable to do so. The proud also wish to appear more excellent than they are and wish to be preferred to others.
Fortitude is also an important virtue that contributes to the beauty of character. Fortitude enables us to curb our fears and moderate our daring. Love is beautiful, but a love that is conquered by fear of danger is weak and short lived.
There is nothing attractive about a life without genuine virtue. Such lives are dull, empty, and tragic. Your life may not ever be celebrated in film, but if you choose to live your life in accordance with the kalon, the Lord, in company with all the saints, will celebrate your life for eternity, for it will be a life that shares in the glory of the only Son of God, who came to impart that glory to all who choose to cloth themselves in it.

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