My favorite books have a ...

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author\'s portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
 Amos Bronson Alcott

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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

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
 Amos Bronson Alcott