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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    Not far from such ignorant squatters I have seen a portion of the same desert land enriched by water and intelligent cultivation until it had become a veritable Eden of delicious fruits, vegetables, grains and flowers. Large fami¬ lies were living comfortably on an incredibly small piece of land, whereas before the intro¬ duction of water they would have half starved on perhaps a hundred acres. Most human beings live all their lives on des¬ erts which are teeming with marvelous poten¬ cies and possibilities, but for lack of knowledge they live in poverty. Their mental resources yield nothing because they have not yet been developed. Some of us get a little irrigation into a corner of our lives and raise a few vege¬ tables. Some of us cultivate a few flowers, and now and then one will get water and in¬ spiration and ambition enough upon a little larger section of his mental desert and produce something worth while. But very few human beings ever cultivate their entire resources. The new philosophy teaches us how to get hold of our resources, and how to use them, so as to get just what we want. It teaches us that the source from which all things spring is