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  • In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.

    FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 04, 2011
  • In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.

    Art   Past   Zest  
    "A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece". Review of "The Moon in the Gutter" on September 19, 1983. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 48, 1985.
  • 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!

    Writing   Zest   Giving  
    Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation
  • What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

    Zest   Needs   Done  
    William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, Simon and Schuster
  • True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  • With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning.

    Exercise   Zest   Giving  
    "God, family, country: our three great loyalties".
  • Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.

    Mean   Reality   Zest  
    Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.24, Shaw Books
  • 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.

    Anger   Fate   Race  
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics
  • If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

    Zest   Effort   Joy  
  • Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

    Zest   Add   Pleasure  
  • I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

    "Citadelle". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1948.
  • I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.

    Sarcastic   Zest   Dry  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

    Eye   Errors   Zest  
  • 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.

    Dance   Animal   Zest  
  • A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

    Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”
  • There will be no new arcadian age. There will always be new burdens, new problems, new failures, new beginnings. And the glory of man is to respond to his harsh fate with zest and ever-renewed effort.

  • It's so acceptably easy for a woman not to strive too hard, not to be too adventure-crazed, not to take too many risks, not to enjoy sex with full candor ... It isn't seemly for a woman to have that much zest.

    Sex   Adventure   Zest  
  • 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.

    Struggle   Yoga   Air  
  • It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

    Zest   Three   Feminine  
    W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.36, Courier Corporation
  • Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

    Running   Zest   Giving  
  • Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.

    Happiness   Mean   Pride  
    Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.60, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • This bright new year is given me

    William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”
  • Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.

  • 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

    Cat   Zest   Sea  
    1927 archy and mehitabel,'mehitabels extensive past'.
  • Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

    Sweet   War   Wine  
    Henry Ward BEECHER (1865). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a collection of memorable passages from the discourses of H. W. Beecher. With a sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room, by Augusta Moore. New edition, revised, and greatly enlarged [of the second series of “Life Thoughts”].”, p.222
  • 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.

    Zest   Order   Play  
  • A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

    Lying   Zest   Chocolate  
    Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Life   Men   Thinking  
    Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”
  • ...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 (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.12, HarperCollins UK
  • When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

    Zest   Careers   Creative  
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