Daisaku Ikeda Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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

  What Matters, People, Made

• Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Ocean, Shining

• Have the depth of faith to regard everything as a source for creating happiness and value.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Faith, Creating, Depth

• Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Mean, Creating, Mad

  Daisaku Ikeda (2001). “For the Sake of Peace: Seven Paths to Global Harmony, a Buddhist Perspective”

• Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Powerful, Reality, Rights

• The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Self, Roles, Use

• The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Rights, People, Stories

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