You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden frames “finding your place” not as a matter of status or external fit, but as an inner alignment between vocation and character. The test is holistic: work should awaken one’s “faculties” (abilities, energy, ambition) and also win the assent of the “whole nature” (conscience, temperament, values). In this view, dissatisfaction is not merely inconvenience but evidence of misalignment—either the work is too small to call forth one’s powers or it violates deeper inclinations and principles. The quote reflects Marden’s broader success-literature emphasis on purposeful self-development: the right calling is the one that mobilizes talent and produces a felt moral and emotional “yes,” sustaining effort over time.