Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

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• Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our…
• Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.
• There is no one as strong as a person whose heart is always filled with gratitude.
• Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important…
• Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
• Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.
• Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of their determination fades with time. The important thing is not that your resolve…
• Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
• Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.
• Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
• You must not for one moment give up the effort to build up new lives for yourself.
• A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths
• Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.
• I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.
• Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.
• Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.
• 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…
• 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…
• Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give…
• It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

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