Zitat des Tages über Zitrusschale / Zest:
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.
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
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.
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.
I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.
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.
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing.