Daisaku Ikeda Quotes - Page 6

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• The gratification of desire is not happiness.

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  Desire, Gratification

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.109, Middleway Press

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• Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.

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  Real, Adversity, Essence

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• We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.

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  Meaningful, Lying, Spring

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• A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life

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  Encounters, Moments

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• The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

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  Powerful, Heart, Mind

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• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

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  Heart, Rejection, Helping

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• So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

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  Knowing, Long, Cynical

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• 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 resolve

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  Future, Vision, Matter

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• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

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  Real, Struggle, School

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• While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

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  Morning, Spring, Winter

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• World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

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  Creating, People, Leader

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• A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

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  Jewels, Treasure, Dignity

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• The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

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  Long, People, Essentials

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• If you become deadlocked,return to the prime point.

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  Return, Prime, Ifs

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• Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

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  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Japan, Humanity

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• Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.

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  Attitude, Keys, Challenges

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• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

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  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

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  Simple, Reality, Space

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• Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.

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  Unique, Creating, Issues

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• It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

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  Winning, Victory, Path

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• We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

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  Inspirational, Destiny, What Matters

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• In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

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  Decision, Limits, Cases

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• Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

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  Creativity, Mean, Doorways

  Daisaku Ikeda (1975*). “The tide toward the 21st century: addresses”

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• Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

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  Opposites, Goal, Causes

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.109, Middleway Press

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• Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace.

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  Teamwork, Effort, Foundation

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