Daisaku Ikeda Quotes - Page 9

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• Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

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  Children, Cutting, Reality

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• 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.

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  Self, Roles, Use

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• Strength is itself victory.

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  Victory

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• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

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  Country, Fall, People

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• It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

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  Real, Way, Citizens

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• There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

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  Leader, Arrogant, Want

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• Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. 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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  Buddhist, Morning, Spring

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• Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

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  Moving, Political, Vision

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

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  Eye, Unique, Humanity

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• History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

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  War, Differences, Community

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• A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

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  Commitment, Play, Rights

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• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

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  Nuclear, Development, Weapons

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• Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

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  People, Evil, Ends

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• All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

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  People, Desire, Natural

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• Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.

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  Powerful, Ambition, Hopeful

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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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• The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

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  Opportunity, Order, Dignity

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• We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

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  Past, Historical, Pawns

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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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• One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count.

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  Heart, Titles, Substance

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• Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

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  Sacrifice, Way Forward, People

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• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

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  Anniversary, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cities

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• 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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  Expression, Democracy, Transition

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• Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

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  Stress, People, Worry

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.34, Middleway Press

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• Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of that determination fades in time. The moment you feel that is when you should make a fresh determination. Tell yourself, “OK! I will start again from now!” If you fall down seven times, get up an eighth. Don’t give up when you feel discouraged-jus t pick yourself up and renew your determination each time.

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  Determination, Giving Up, Fall

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