"What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?"
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"People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well."
"Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be."
"I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting."
"In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature."
"Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities."
"A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it."
"There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close."
"How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life."
"Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow."
"Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering."
"In order to write about life first you must live it."
"Good order is the foundation of all things."
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
"I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out."
"But above all, in order to be, never try to seem."
"We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help."
"Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded."
"There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things."
"I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged."