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Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow and develop as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are ridiculed and attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected grief and suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. Never give up. Never retreat.
- Daisaku Ikeda

To the weak, difficulty is a closed door. To the strong, however, it is a door waiting to be opened. - Almafuerte

How may one get to know oneself? Never by contemplation, only, indeed, by action. Seek to do your duty, and you will know at once how it is with you.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us all set our sights on leading great lives dedicated always to truth and move toward that goal in good health, brimming with hope. Let us live our lives boldly, without regret, advancing with patience, enthusiasm and a genuine spirit of friendship and camaraderie.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Chang-An writes, "If one befriends another person but lacks the mercy to correct him, one is infact his enemy." The consequences of a grave offense are extremely difficult to erase. The most important thing is to continually strengthen our wish to benefit others.
- Nichiren

There is no need for you to be impatient. If you canachieve something very easily right from the start, you will find no sense of fulfillment or joy. It is in making tenacious, all-out efforts for construction that profound happiness lies.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Be yourself and seek your own path. Know yourself before you attempt to get to know children. First and foremost you must realize that you too are a child, whom you must first get to know, to bring up and to educate.
- Janus Korczak

Love is not two people gazing at each other, but two people looking ahead together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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This lifetime will never come again; it is precious and irreplaceable. To live without regret, it is crucial for us to have a concrete purpose and continually set goals and challenges for ourselves. It is equally important that we keep moving toward specific targets steadily and tenaciously, one step at a time.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life contains the capacity, like flames that reach toward heaven, to transform suffering and pain into the energy needed for value-creation, into light that illuminates darkness. Like the wind traversing vast spaces unhindered, life has the power to uproot and overturn all obstacles and difficulties. Like clear flowing water, it can wash away all stains and impurities. and finally, life, like the great earth that sustains vegetation, impartially protects all people with its compassionate, nurturing force.
- Daisaku Ikeda

If you can live through that(a difficult situation)you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along".
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Pain Is Inevitable. Suffering Is Optional.
- Anonymous

Winter Always Turns To Spring*

By challenging ourselves every day with rigorous fortitude, we are creating causes for a triumphant life. Let's each win and open the way to a springtime filled with happiness and fortune in our respective arenas. - Daisaku Ikeda

*Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Vol I pg. 536