Top 42 Quotes About A Zest For Life
#1. Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life.
#2. 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.
#3. 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.
#4. 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.
#5. I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.
#6. What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
#7. Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
I shun all signs of anchorage, because
The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.
#8. 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.
#9. Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.
#10. Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.
#11. I am a fireball of emotions and impulses; my zest for life is unquenchable. And I am either of only two things: Fire or Ice.
#12. It's all because of you. Your bravery, your zest for life, your ability to shake off the negative. You are radiant now because you chose to be happy and forgive your past.
#13. 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.
#14. Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death
#15. The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
#16. We choose to live life to the fullest because it is in our best interest to do so. - Charmainism
#17. Nothing else matters much ... not wealth, nor learning, nor even health ... without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
#18. In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
#19. All life demands change, variety, contrast - else there is small zest to it.
#20. In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
#21. 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 ...
#22. Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?
#23. The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves ... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.
#24. Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.
#25. If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
#26. I want to read every book that's written
hear every song that was sung
I want to gaze at every cloud
and hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.
#27. Life is enthusiasm, zest.
#28. Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.
#29. I have known successful businessmen who, upon retirement, lost all zest for life. Their work had given their lives meaning. Often it was the only thing that had given their lives meaning and, without it, they spent day after day sitting at home, depressed, with nothing to do.
#30. 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
#31. 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.
#32. 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.
#33. As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
#34. He asked McCabe to outlaw him and his religion, too, in order to give the religious life of the people more zest, more tang.
#35. 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.
#36. 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.
#37. A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.
#38. With good health all the activities of life are greatly enhanced ... It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning.
#39. If life wanted to hand me lemons
I was not only going to make lemonade,
but I'd use the zest for cookies,
plant seeds for future fruit and turn the rind into compost to grow flowers, all the while giving thanks for lemons.
#40. The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait.
#41. I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.
#42. 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.
Famous Authors
- Brian Freeman Quotes
- Chris Bosh Quotes
- Hadi M. Nor Quotes
- Janette Howard Quotes
- John Avery Quotes
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Quotes
- Kathleen Depperschmidt Quotes
- Richard Manuel Quotes
- Tara Sue Me Quotes
- Walter Reuther Quotes