Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.
Daisaku IkedaI 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.
Daisaku IkedaEnvying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
Daisaku IkedaThe 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.
Daisaku Ikeda