I am not at all the sort of ...

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
 Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

Quotes from the same author

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
 Jane Welsh Carlyle
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.
 Jane Welsh Carlyle
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?
 Jane Welsh Carlyle
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
 Jane Welsh Carlyle