Daisaku Ikeda Quotes - Page 8

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• Strength is Happiness.

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• Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do.

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  Spring, Feet, Trying

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• No one is born hating others.

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  Hate, Born

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• Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.

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  Lying, Compassion, Practice

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• When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking. The key to achievement is to move forward along your chosen path with firm determination.

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  Determination, Moving, Thinking

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• Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

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  Heart, Fire, Flames

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• But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

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  Believe, Heart, Roots

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• Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

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  Strength, Struggle, Winning

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• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

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  Believe, Pride, Decision

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

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  Faith, Creating, Depth

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• ‎"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.

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  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

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• Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

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  Agriculture, Political Revolution, Humanity

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• Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years--nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.

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  Dark, Years, Rivers

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• Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.

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  Heart, People, Manipulation

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• Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

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  Song, Heart, Limits

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• If we are to put the era of nuclear terror behind us, we must struggle against the real 'enemy.' That enemy is not nuclear weapons per se, nor is it the states that possess or develop them. The real enemy that we must confront is the ways of thinking that justify nuclear weapons; the readiness to annihilate others when they are seen as a threat or as a hindrance to the realization of our objectives.

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  Real, Struggle, Thinking

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• Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.

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  Gratitude, Appreciation, Gratitude And Appreciation

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• Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

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  War, Perspective, Humanity

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• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

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  Thinking, Democracy, Progress

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• Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

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  Heart, Echoes, Play

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• Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

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  War, Reality, Men

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Reality, Rights

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• The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

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  Art, Creativity, Break

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• The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

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  Buddhism, Ideas, Causes

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• So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

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  Military, Long, Temptation

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