To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
Interpretation
The presence of a cricket symbolizes good luck and joy in one's home.
This quote from Charles Dickens expresses a belief in the symbolism of the cricket as a bringer of happiness and good fortune. It suggests that small, simple joys within one’s home can lead to a feeling of contentment and luck, emphasizing the importance of cherishing these seemingly insignificant aspects of life.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a family gathering to celebrate the joy of being together.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
My heart forgives and releases. Inner peace is my goal.
The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
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