How to get what you want / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
Date:
[1917], ©1917
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Credit: How to get what you want / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    startling discovery, could this young animal be satisfied to live a sheep’s life. A lion’s life, a lion’s liberty, a lion’s power, the jungle there¬ after for him. There is in every normal human being a sleeping lion. It is just a question of arous¬ ing it, just a question of something happening that will awaken us, stir the depths of our being, and arouse the sleeping power within us. Just as the young lion, after it had once discovered that it was a lion would never again be satisfied to live the life of a sheep, when we discover that we are more than mere clay, when we at last become conscious that we are more than human, that we are gods in the making, we shall never again be satisfied to live the life of common clods of earth. We shall feel a new sense of power welling up within us, a power which we never before dreamed we pos¬ sessed, and never be quite the same again, never again be content with low-flying ideals, with a cheap success. Ever after we will aspire. We will look up, struggle up and on to higher and ever higher planes. Phillips Brooks used to say that after a man