I’m not French, but I can converse in it. To me la vie est belle is also an answer to adversity, a reminder that hard times need not last forever, after all la vie est belle. Yet it is answer to your baby’s smiling face in its innocence too. Elle est si belle car la vie est belle.
When I was at my worst almost five years ago it was because la vie est belle that I could have hope and still work to a better day.
It’s the perfect shot hit in golf. The celebration when hope and striving are realized. It is the comfort I give to a sick or dying friend or loved one and the argument against the impulse to destruction of self.
That’s what that means to me.
My Gifted Life 