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

  • Orison Swett Marden
Date:
[1917]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get what you want / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    est event in any life is that which arouses the God in him. The principal of a New York evening high school, telling an interviewer how she had dis¬ covered herself, said: “When I felt that there was need of me in the world, I awoke to the fact that there must be a soul in me, a something bigger than I was, and therefore a something that I must give to others. I have always believed in the school as a hitherto unrecognized field, because the world is a school, and the application is there¬ fore limitless.” This teacher is remarkably successful be¬ cause she discovered early in life that some¬ thing bigger than herself which she felt she “must give to others.” Although educated as a society girl, the call from the within of her¬ self to teach, was so loud that it could not be resisted. Through teaching she has not only found the larger woman in herself, but she is also helping thousands of other women and girls to do the same for themselves. One of the most difficult things in the world is to get people to realize the extent of their latent powers, to believe in their own bigness*
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