Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

I was doing chemistry in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. It was the first time I'd lived alone, and I had an epiphany while I was spending a lot of time watching TV and decided I wanted try acting.

You come to a point in your life where you don't want to just keep repeating yourself.

I went on a kibbutz for two years. I then realized I have to study. I have to learn something.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

If someone doesn’t want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.

I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.

Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes."

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.