It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World
Interpretation
Appreciating the beauty in life can help alleviate negative feelings like anger.
The quote by Kevin Spacey suggests that the overwhelming presence of beauty in the world has the power to shift our focus away from negative emotions such as anger. By acknowledging and recognizing the beauty around us, we are reminded of the good things in life, which makes it difficult to hold onto feelings of frustration or resentment.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming negativity, one might say this quote to inspire the audience.
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.
She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.
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