Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
Interpretation
Summer brings a sense of relief and joy, allowing us to feel at peace with ourselves and the world.
This quote highlights the transformative power of summer, illustrating how the warmth and beauty of the season can help alleviate stress and renew our spirits. The imagery of shedding clothes symbolizes shedding burdens, while the metaphor of a 'jeweled balm' emphasizes summer days as sources of healing and joy that can make us feel as though everything is perfect in life.
In practice
During a summer gathering, you might quote this to inspire a sense of joy.
Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.
How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. Above and beyond anything I ever did in my life, I wanted to be happy.
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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