Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.
Interpretation
Crying can be a healthy emotional release that brings relief.
In this quote, Julie Andrews highlights the importance of allowing oneself to express emotions through crying. It suggests that shedding tears can be a therapeutic process, helping individuals manage and alleviate feelings of sadness or stress, ultimately contributing to emotional well-being.
In practice
In a speech about mental health awareness, you might quote Andrews to advocate for emotional expression.
I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.
Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow.
My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.
I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.
Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, 'I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.'
Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, βGod, wasn't it wonderful.β
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
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