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.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
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