Daisaku Ikeda Happiness Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Love is a place of rest, a place of comfort and a place of peace and enjoyment.

Euginia Herlihy

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

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#4. Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

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#5. 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.

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#6. The gratification of desire is not happiness.

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#7. I had shaved my beard for her-a huge disappointment, because I'd enjoyed my three weeks looking like a bank robber.

Jennifer Echols

#8. What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.

Willa Gibbs

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

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#10. No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.

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

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#12. I wonder what my speech would be.

Stephen Chbosky

#13. Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

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#14. 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.

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#15. All men are creative but few are artists.

Paul Goodman

#16. If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

Robert Adam

#17. Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

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#18. Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

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#19. 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.

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

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#21. But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I'd signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn't be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.

Peter Allison

#22. Church isn't perfect. It's practice.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#23. Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

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#24. The object of power is power.

George Orwell

#25. A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

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#26. Strength is Happiness.

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