Daisaku Ikeda Quotes - Page 4

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• Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

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  Strong, Believe, Self

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• To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

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  Lying, Moving, Roots

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• Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

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  Karma, Art, Peace

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• Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.

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  Believe, Important, May

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• Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

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  Giving, Fearless, Overcoming

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.131, Middleway Press

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• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

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  Cosmos, Earth, Breathe

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• Only when we connect to nature, engaged with nature, are we truly alive and vigorous. To really be alive, one must be under the sun, the moon, the shining stars and surrounded by the beautiful greenery and pure waters of the natural world.

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  Beautiful, Nature, Stars

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• Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

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  Quality, Doe, Patterns

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• Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.

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  Wall, Progress, Becoming

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• Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds passage to the listener's soul, striking his or her heart and causing it to sing out; the human voice summons something profound from deep within, and can even compel a person into action.

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  Heart, Caring, Compassion

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• True love should be transformative; a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Only to the extent that we polish ourselves now can we hope to develop wonderful bonds of the heart in the future.

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  Heart, People, Stronger

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• It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

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  Imperfection, Criticism, Looks

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• The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.

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  Life, Successful, Glowing

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• There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

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  Past, Important, Sowing

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• People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging
  oneself.

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  People, Inspire, Challenges

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• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

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  Life, Giving Up, Struggle

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• All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.

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  Hard Work, Sleep, People

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• Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.

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  Karma, Peace, Compassion

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• By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

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  Buddhist, Creativity, Mean

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• it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

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  Karma, Peace, Buddhist

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• Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.

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  Strong, Real, Independent

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• Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!

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  Greatest Treasure, Treasure, No Hope

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• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

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  Giving Up, Creativity, Mean

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• People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.

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  People, Path, Defeated

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• No one should be left to suffer alone.

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  Suffering, Should, Left

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