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.
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.
The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
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