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Joy and sunshine yellow: Happiness and joy blue: Long-term loyalty and trust purple: Thoughtfulness wild "I will think of it" [3] [5] Dame's violet: Watchfulness [5] Dandelion: Overcoming hardship; faithfulness, happiness, love's oracle; [4] rustic oracle; [5] youthful recollections; [8] coquetry [6] Daphne: Sweets to the sweet [8] Daylily ...
Euphrosyne is a goddess of good cheer, joy and mirth. [8] Her name is the female version of the word euphrosynos, "merriment". Pindar wrote that these goddesses were created to fill the world with pleasant moments and good will. [9] The Charites attended the goddess of beauty Aphrodite. [10] In art, Euphrosyne is usually depicted with her ...
The wheel of joy is commonly depicted at the central hub of the dharmachakra, where its three or four swirls may represent the Three Jewels and victory over the three poisons, or the Four Noble Truths and the four directions. As a symbol of the Three Jewels it may also appear as the "triple-eyed" or wish-granting gem of the chakravartin.
A scene in the 1977 Disney film The Rescuers uses the bluebird as a symbol of "faith ... you see from afar." In the 1985 film Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird, the Sleaze Brothers kidnap Big Bird and press him into service in their fun fair, where he is painted blue and billed as the Blue Bird of Happiness. In a play on the word "blue ...
In the 19th century, it became one of the symbols of the French Republic, along with the Marianne and the sower. Since 1999, it has been featured on French one-euro and two-euro coins. Planted, generally in the busiest, most visible spot in a locality, as signs of joy and symbols of emancipation, these plants were to grow with the new institutions.
Stained glass window at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, depicting the Fruit of the Holy Spirit along with Biblical role models representing them: the Good Shepherd representing love, an angel holding a scroll with the Gloria in excelsis Deo representing joy and Jesus Christ, Job representing longsuffering, Jonathan faith, Ruth gentleness and goodness, Moses meekness, and John the Baptist ...
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Double Happiness is a ligature, "囍" composed of 喜喜 – two copies of the Chinese character 喜 (xǐ ⓘ) literally meaning joy, compressed to assume the square shape of a standard Chinese character (much as a real character may consist of two parts), and is pronounced simply as xǐ or as a polysyllabic Chinese character, being read as 双喜 (shuāngxǐ).