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Quotes About Zest

I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.
~ Alan King
My mother does not give up and she never has on anything. I love her zest for life. She has never ever let me accept defeat when it comes to goals that I've had or even if it is just making sure that I never lose my zest for life.
~ Sameera Reddy
I had a passionate zest for Key West life in all of its little details. I'm not sure why or where that came from, but I was so excited to be there.
~ Thomas McGuane
There's been bumps in the road and serious challenges along the way, but my love for NASCAR and my zest for life is what's most important to me.
~ Michael Waltrip
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
~ Christian Dior
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
~ Hortense Calisher
We are restless and curious and ready to get to work. The doubts and the "zest" create crosscurrents that can cancel each other out and leave us stymied by a sense of aimlessness. That is the Fertile Void. Traveling through it is an existential mission without a goal. Having goals at the start will only throw you off course. Meaningful goals will emerge in their own good time. But the unremitting unknowingness is hard to take.
~ Suzanne Braun Levine
growth mindset: a zest for teaching and learning, an openness to giving and receiving feedback, and an ability to confront and surmount obstacles.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, screaming, "WOO HOO What a Ride!
~ Carol Williams
Besides, good swearing is used as a form of punctuation, not necessarily a response to pain or insult, and is utilized by experts to lend a sentence a certain zest, like a sprinkling of paprika.
~ George Plimpton
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy.
~ Antoine de SaintExupery
Pepper is small but not its zest
~ Tamil proverb
I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.
~ George Murray
Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living
~ Aga Khan III
Already the zest of combat, which of old had been so keen and lasting, had died down, and he discovered that he was self-analytical, too much so to live, single heart and single hand, so primitive an existence.
~ Jack London
I'm impulsive, spontaneous; I have a joy in my life today that doesn't quit.
~ Mariette Hartley
My biggest nightmare is that something doesn't have enough salt.
~ Antoni Porowski
Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the reach of scribbling fingers. With all this buzz of criticism about, one may hazard one's conjectures privately, make one's notes in the margin; but, knowing that someone has said it before, or said it better, the zest is gone. Illness, it its kingly sublimity, sweeps all that aside and leaves nothing but Shakespeare and oneself.
~ Virginia Woolf
I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
~ Oscar Wilde
What would have happened if Franklin had, in fact, received a formal academic education and gone to Harvard? Some historians such as Arthur Tourtellot argue that he would have been stripped of his "spontaneity," "intuitive" literary style, "zest," "freshness," and the "unclutteredness" of his mind. And indeed, Harvard has been known to
~ Walter Isaacson
Life's too short for mild salsa.
~ Kelly Newcomb, 1997
Sagittarius — They don't mean to interrupt, they just randomly remember things and get excited.
~ Internet meme
Whatever brings you joy and zest will enhance your ability to act bravely.
~ Harriet Lerner