“Don’t live life as a spectator. Always examine life: Espouse new ideas, long fornew things, constantly discovering new interests, escaping from boringroutines. Engage life with enthusiasm; grasping life aggressively and squeezingfrom it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy. The key to unleashing life’s potential is attitude. The person who approacheslife with a child-like wonder is best prepared to defy the limitations of time, ismore “alive,” more of a participant in life than the person who remains aspectator.”

“He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence.”

“Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.”

“I think it is about life. I think there is always more life than death. Those who lived are always alive for someone. Those who are alive remember life, not death. And when you are dead nothing happens. Death is nothing.”

“But I had become a different person. One who looked at things in a new way. I appreciated life a whole lot more than I had last year.”

“Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.”