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Self-Improvement Quote by Mary Richards

"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do"

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A slightly unsteady sentence, it still lands like a manifesto: agency is not a mood, its a residency. "Inhabit ourselves" turns selfhood from an abstract noun into a place you can either occupy or abandon. The line implies a prior condition of vacancy: living on autopilot, outsourcing decisions to expectations, drifting through roles that fit on paper but not in the body. Before you can "do what we want to do", you have to move back in.

The phrasing also sidesteps the usual self-help command to "be yourself". Inhabit is tougher. It suggests maintenance, attention, and maybe discomfort; you dont inhabit a house without noticing the drafty corners. The intent feels practical rather than inspirational: reclaim your interior life so your choices stop being reactive or performative.

Subtext: desire alone is cheap. Wanting can be pure fantasy if the self doing the wanting is fragmented, anxious, or built for approval. The quote draws a quiet line between impulse and intention. It argues that freedom is not the absence of constraints but the presence of a coherent occupant at the wheel.

Because the author and profession are unclear, context has to be inferred from the language. It reads like something born out of therapy culture or spiritual practice: a response to modern dissociation, to screens and schedules and social scripts that make people spectators in their own lives. The slightly archaic "indeed" gives it a sermonic cadence, as if insisting: not theoretically, not someday, but actually.

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