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• A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

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  Genuine Happiness, Happy Person, Persons

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.102, Middleway Press

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• If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.

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  Regret, Believe, Challenges

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• Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

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  Optimism, Hopeful, Pessimism

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• People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

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  Helping Others, People, Giving

  Daisaku Ikeda (2014). “Journey of Life: Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda”, p.233, I.B.Tauris

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• Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

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  Karma, Dream, Peace

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• Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

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  Writing, Decision, Lasts

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• Do something! Start something! As you make consistent efforts, you will begin to see your goals come into focus. You will discover your mission--the one only you can fulfill.

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  Goal, Focus, Effort

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.102, Middleway Press

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• A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

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  Adversity, Persons, True Nature

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• I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

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  Believe, Peaceful, Century

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• Faith and daily life, faith and work-these are not separate things. They are one and the same. To think of them as separate-that faith is faith, and work is work-is theoretical faith. Based on the recognition that work and faith are one and the same, we should put one hundred percent of our energy into our jobs and one hundred percent into our faith, too. When we resolve to do this, we enter the path of victory in life. Faith means to show irrefutable proof of victory amid the realities of society and in our own daily lives.

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  Jobs, Mean, Reality

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• A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

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  Past, Visions Of The Future, Healthy

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• If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field of endeavour, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are advancing towards success and victory in life.

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  Inspirational, Character, Smooth Sailing

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• One thing is certain: The power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. This is a fact. When you clearly envision a victorious outcome, engrave it in your heart and are firmly convinced that you will attain it, your brain makes every effort to realize the mental image you have created. And then, through your unceasing efforts, that victory is finally made a reality.

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  Believe, Moving, Heart

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• Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

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  War, Suffering Of Others, Depth

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• Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

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  Character, People, Height

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• There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed.

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  Heart, Compassion, True Joy

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• A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life

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  Encounters, Moments

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• Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

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  Summer, Creativity, Winter

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• The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life.

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  Wind, Sea, Dancing

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• The gratification of desire is not happiness.

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  Desire, Gratification

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.109, Middleway Press

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• Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

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  Buddhist, Struggle, Character

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• Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.

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  Real, Adversity, Essence

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• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

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  Heart, Rejection, Helping

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• So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

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  Knowing, Long, Cynical

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• No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

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  Future, Vision, Matter

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