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.
Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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