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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.

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What Matters, People, Made

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In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

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Determination, Thinking, Despair

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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 equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives.

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Attitude, Mean, Compassion

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Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

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Attitude, Winning, Yesterday

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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.

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Life, Ocean, Shining

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The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

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Greatness, Determined, Life Is

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If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.

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Love, Beauty, Attitude

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It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

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Life, Change, Courage

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Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

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Waiting, Chance, Obstacles

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As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What separates a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a malevolent one, however, is whether one can candidly admit to ones mistakes and take bold steps to redress them.

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Mistake, Fall, Views

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Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer was answered immediately, we would become lazy and degenerate. And we could not hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.

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Prayer, People, Profound

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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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Mean, Insperational, Faces

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People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging
oneself.

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People, Inspire, Challenges

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Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

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Buddhist, Reality, Grieving

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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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Attitude, Praise, Diminish

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It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that surges forth from within.

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Commitment, Winning, Important

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There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

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Past, Important, Sowing

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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 forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

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Buddhist, Creativity, Mean

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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 realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

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Character, Our World, Empowering

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Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.

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Strong, Real, Independent

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The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.

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Spiritual, Ideas, Profound

Daisaku, Ikeda (1982). “Life: An Enigma, a Precious Jewel”, Kodansha America

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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 heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.

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Appreciation, Attitude, Heart

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Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

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Common Humanity, Effort, Courageous

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Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you don’t do or say anything, it’s not real compassion.

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Real, Compassion, Two Sides

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Keep moving forward, even one or two steps, in your own way. Those who live out their lives to the fullest, unperturbed by the noisy clamor around them, are the true winners.

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Moving, Two, Way

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