Daisaku Ikeda Quotes about Giving

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Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

Daisaku Ikeda

Strong, Compassion, Giving

To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.

Daisaku Ikeda

Heart, Compassion, Giving

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

Daisaku Ikeda

Giving, Fearless, Overcoming

Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.131, Middleway Press

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

Daisaku Ikeda

Helping Others, People, Giving

Daisaku Ikeda (2014). “Journey of Life: Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda”, p.233, I.B.Tauris

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Daisaku Ikeda

Leadership, Hope, Giving