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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. -- Christian Dior
Life is enthusiasm, zest. -- Laurence Olivier
Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? -- Rajneesh
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world. -- Hortense Calisher
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. -- Bertrand Russell
I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life. -- Krysten Ritter
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema. -- Antonia Fraser
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best. -- Henry Van Dyke
Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death -- Jhonen Vasquez
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. -- Branch Rickey
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! -- William Arthur Ward
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life. -- Elbert Hubbard
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. -- Winston Graham
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. -- Simon Newcomb
An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must. -- Christopher Fry
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure. -- Joseph Pilates
I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. -- Giada De Laurentiis
Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all get along? Many people mistake uniformity for unity; sameness for oneness. One word--boring! Differences should be seen as strengths, not weaknesses. They add zest to life. -- Stephen Covey
...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. -- Ray Bradbury
Spirit, faith, and positive energy are the core of human life, without them you lose your way. You live without Zest. You go through the motions but there's no passion -- Lee Bolman
Temperance adds zest to pleasure. -- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
to teach without zest is a crime. -- Virginia Woolf
Women add zest to the unlicensed hours. -- Allen Thomas
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest. -- William James
A zest for living must include a willingness to die. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life. -- Robert A. Heinlein
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth. -- Kabir
Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired. -- Brigitte Bardot
In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life. -- Walt Disney
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman. -- Margaret Mead
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest. -- Margaret Mead
No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. -- John Leo
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it. -- Alesha Dixon
Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws. -- Claude McKay
Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate. -- Rajneesh
With good health all the activities of life are greatly enhanced... It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. -- Ezra Taft Benson
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy. -- David Riesman
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors Ã¦ons ago. -- Olaf Stapledon
I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life. -- Plato
Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage. -- Tobias Smollett
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat -- Don Marquis
I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game. -- Alexander Ovechkin
After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air. -- Sivananda Radha Saraswati
Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country. -- Dale Carnegie
I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew. -- Neil Gaiman
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite! -- Lewis Carroll
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country. -- Wilfred Owen
In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place. -- Letitia Baldrige
The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing. -- Curt Sachs
You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit. -- Iris Apfel
The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great. -- John F. Kennedy

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