Top 41 Nichiren Quotes

#1. I could just envision myself trying to be sexy and ending up looking like the kid from Napoleon Dynamite.

Nicole Jacquelyn

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#2. A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.

Nichiren

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#3. Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

James Fitzjames Stephen

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#4. Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord.

Nichiren

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#5. More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

Nichiren

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#6. If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way

Nichiren

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#7. Life doesn't happen to me because I don't let it happen. I'm afraid it won't happen the only way I want it to happen: my way.

Carol Vorvain

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#8. And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them, even talk to them. It saddened him to discover the not everyone shared his feelings towards them.

Humphrey Carpenter

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#9. Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

Nichiren

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#10. Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Swami Vivekananda

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#11. Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.

Nichiren

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#12. A coward cannot have any prayer answered.

Nichiren

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#13. Mother Earth is very talented.

Nhat Hanh

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#14. If only closed minds came with closed mouths.

Anonymous

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#15. If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Jules Renard

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#16. That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

Nichiren

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#17. If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land ...

Nichiren

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#18. One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

Nichiren

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#19. When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.

Nichiren

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#20. The lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

Patrick Ness

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#21. Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

Nichiren

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#22. Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.

Nichiren

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#23. Faith Alone is what really matters.

Nichiren

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#24. By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.

Nichiren

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#25. Let best thoughts come to you and
see it will take shape of reality.

Nisha B. Thakur

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#26. If one lights a fire for others, one will brighten one's own way.

Nichiren

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#27. Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.

Nichiren

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#28. Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold.

Nichiren

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#29. The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all.

Nichiren

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#30. Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

Nichiren

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#31. I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

Brenda Fassie

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#32. Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!

Nichiren

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#33. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest joy for all humankind.

Nichiren

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#34. Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.

Conrad Sewell

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#35. When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.

Kyung-Sook Shin

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#36. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance ...

Nichiren

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#37. To begin this Practice is easy. To persevere is difficult.

Nichiren

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#38. It is the heart that is important.

Nichiren

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#39. Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law?

Nichiren

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#40. No one is going to mess with my son or daughter."
She laughed. "You can't assassinate bullies or boys who kiss your daughter."
"Pity.

Maria V. Snyder

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#41. I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

Ken Burns

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