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What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

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

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

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Christian Dior

It will be all over this day week - comfort - discomfort; and the zest and rush that no engagements, hours, habits give. Then we shall take them up again with more than the zest of traveling.

Virginia Woolf

If the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as well as competent

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

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

Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest

Juvenal

Man has lost one quality, the quality of zestfulness. And without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else.

Osho

Pepper is small but not its zest

Tamil proverb

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! 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! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!î

William Arthur

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

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

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

Antonia Fraser

Association with one's fellows is essential to the renewal of the zest for life and is indispensable to the maintenance of the courage to fight those battles consequent upon the ascent to the higher levels of human living

Midwayer Commission

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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 Green Hubbard

Gaiety that sweetens existence and makes it wholesome - a sense of humor, a zest of enjoyment - this is the accompaniment of courage which gives it a supreme value. Something of the high laughter of a Cyrano de Bergerac - the world needs it.

Dr. Herbert Hichen

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

Sir Laurence Olivier

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

Bertrand Russell

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Hortense Calisher