Daisaku Ikeda Quotes - Page 9

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• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

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  Humane Way, Rights, People

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• Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do.

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  Spring, Feet, Trying

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• Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

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  Stress, People, Worry

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.34, Middleway Press

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• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

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  Anniversary, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cities

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• Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

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  Sacrifice, Way Forward, People

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• Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

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  War, People, Depth

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• You must not for one moment give up the effort to build up new lives for yourself.

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  Giving Up, Motivation, Effort

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• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

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  Country, Japan, People

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• Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

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  Moving, Political, Vision

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• It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

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  Happiness, Fighting, Enemy

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• Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

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  Buddhist, Morning, Spring

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• Strength is itself victory.

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  Victory

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• Strength is Happiness.

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• Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

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  People, Evil, Ends

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• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

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  Country, Fall, People

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• The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

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  Heart, Reactions, Subtle

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.35, Middleway Press

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• It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

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  Real, Way, Citizens

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• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

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  Nuclear, Development, Weapons

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• Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

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  Children, Cutting, Reality

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• Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

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  Results, Circumstances, Worst

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• The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival and progress can be possible.

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  Long, People, Progress

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• So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

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  Military, Long, Temptation

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• The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

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  Opportunity, Order, Dignity

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• When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

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  Moving Forward, Light, Suffering

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• One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view.

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  Character, Reflection, Views

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