Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that dieting is about losing weight to achieve a healthier and happier state.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote highlights the paradox of dieting: the act of losing weight is seen as winning in the context of health and wellness. In this 'game,' shedding pounds symbolizes success, as it ultimately leads to better physical health, increased confidence, and overall happiness, contrasting with traditional notions of winning that often involve gaining or achieving something material.
In practice
During a motivational seminar on health and wellness.
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
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