"Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I……" — Daisaku Ikeda
"Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings."
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215 Quotes by Daisaku Ikeda
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Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do,…
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Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow…
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There is no one as strong as a person whose heart is always filled with gratitude.
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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot…
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Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
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Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming…
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Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of their determination fades with time. The important thing…
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Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action,…
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Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.
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Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of…
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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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A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws…
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes,…
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still…
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Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the…
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
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Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So…
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is…
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to…
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We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those…
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is…
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five…
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed…
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