What we need most is to restore and revive our humanity. We must create a society where people can live with dignity,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness.… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other;… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for! — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Never be shaken, no matter what happens or what others may say. Never be flustered; never lose confidence. This is the way we should… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Human wisdom has advanced to the point where man can construct satellites. And yet man in his wisdom cannot find a way to rescue… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image