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(5:09.) When people become ill, worried or fearful, one of the first symptoms of trouble is a lack of pleasure, a gradual discontinuance of playful action, and an over-concentration upon personal problems. In other words, illness is often first marked by a lack of zest or exuberance.

On the other hand, it is an excellent practice to comment upon another individual’s obvious zest or energy or good spirits. In such a way, you reward positive behavior, and may indeed begin a chain of positive activity instead of continuing a chain of negative reactions.

[...] You cannot be inoculated with the desire to live, or with the zest, delight, or contentment of the healthy animal. [...]

This book will be devoted, then, to those conditions that best promote spiritual, psychic, and physical zest, the biological and psychic components that make a species desire to continue its kind. [...]

Love involves self-respect, the trust in individual biological zest and integrity. [...]

[...] I do not put labels on my own theories, and I explain — or I try to explain — my most ‘profound’ statements by adding a dash of zest, a smidgen of humor, an egotistical touch of humility. [...]

[...] That pursuit automatically gives life its zest and natural sense of excitement and drama. [...]

If you do this, your life will automatically be provided with excitement, natural zest and creativity, and those characteristics will be reflected outward into the social, political, economic, and scientific worlds. [...]

This deprives body and mind of the zest and purpose needed in order to enjoy any pursuits or activities. [...]

(10:13.) Ruburt correctly perceived the great need for a zest and excitement in this woman’s life, for initiative. [...]

[...] Even the animals seek stimuli and feel a zest for existence; so in this way Dineen, in a misguided manner, is still giving expression to a definite need of her being.

For that matter, an athlete may have a great zest for motion and an impatience with reading, caring not what within the body makes it move as long as its performance is superb — while an invalid with great book knowledge about all of the body’s parts is quite unable to physically perform in a normal manner.

[...] Each individual of each species takes that initial zest and joy of life as its own yardstick. [...]

[...] That ideal, however, different in one area than in another, was usually self-righteously applied with a vengeance and fanatical zest, so that all things outside it were seen as evil.

Now: generally speaking, Ruburt enjoys our sessions, and considers them with a natural zest. [...]

(Now Seth moved from his own book to this new subject — Jane’s The World View of Paul Cézanne — with ease and obvious zest. [...]

[...] They extended their horizons, pushed beyond the conventional mental landscapes — driven by zest and vitality, by curiosity and love, and not by fear (all of the above with much emphasis).

[...] He is pleased with the time that has been gained, with the abilities that he has used and developed, and filled with a natural creative zest. [...]

[...] For all of Michelangelo’s ranting, he found great zest in the political tumult of his time, in which he was of course quite intimately involved. [...]

[...] Others would want much more excitement, much more zest, and order then instead a less grand vessel, but one that went faster. [...]

The task upon which Ruburt will embark will be performed with zest, for the physical system will be replenished and adequately supplied. [...]

“Now: Generally speaking, Ruburt enjoys our sessions, and considers them with a natural zest.