Quotes from Daisaku Ikeda

No one should be left to suffer alone.

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.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

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.

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

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.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

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

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

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

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

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.

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.

Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.