joie de vivre Quotes

Italy itself has 21 different micro-regions. You go within each of those regions, there's even super-micro-regions; and the beauty is that when you go from place to place, although there's a common thread of pasta and joie de vivre - in the way that they approach their meals and the simplicity of cooking, celebrating more the product than the chef - there's still so much variety that as you go, it's always an exciting moment.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.