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Mean Quotes by Daisaku Ikeda
- Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.
- Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
- An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as…
- 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…
- 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…
- True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.
- What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of difficulty. What is…
- 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…
- 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…
- Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the…
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- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams