You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
Interpretation
Embrace and appreciate your own presence and self-worth.
Diane Von Furstenberg's quote emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and self-enjoyment. Since we are our own constant companions throughout life, finding joy and comfort within ourselves is essential for a fulfilling life. This idea advocates for fostering a positive relationship with oneself, which ultimately enhances overall happiness and personal well-being.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-love and happiness.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)
Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.
I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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