A Quote by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Approval Approval Of Others Constant Consuming Depend Embrace Fanaticism Gratification Harness Insane Interests Joie De Vivre Others Passions Pursuing Sources

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Elizabeth Wurtzel
American - Writer
July 31, 1967 - January 7, 2020

Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.

Perry Groves

To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

Joan Littlewood

When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

Chip Conley

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

RuPaul

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

Fran Lebowitz

Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.

Joni Mitchell

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.

Zoroaster

Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.

John Mackey

In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Mireille Guiliano

In #? France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Mireille Guiliano

Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.

Donald Barthelme

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

Geena Davis

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.