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Daisaku Ikeda (池田大作, Ikeda Daisaku, born 2 January 1928) is a Buddhist philosopher, educator, author, and nuclear disarmament advocate. He has served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements. Ikeda is the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), the world's largest Buddhist lay organization with approximately 12 million practitioners in 192 countries and territories.

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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.

Humanity, Men, People, Reality, Unite, War

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

Directly, Heart, Peace, Play, Space

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

Attitude, Breaking, Challenge, Challenges, Key, Keys

Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

Boundaries, Decision, Lasts, Limitations, Mustnt, Writing

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.

Continue, Giving, Helping Others, Life, People, Realize

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.

Breathes, Conform, Doe, Exist, Patterns, Quality

Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

Character, Engagement, Genuine, People, Polish

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

Hope, Hopeful, Invincible, Optimism, Pessimism, Transforms

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

Friend, Friends, Good, Good Friend, People, Way

Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds passage to the listener's soul, striking his or her heart and causing it to sing out; the human voice summons something profound from deep within, and can even compel a person into action.

Caring, Compassion, Compel, Deep, Heart, Person

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

Compassion, Give, Giving, Make, Strong

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

Powerful, Reality, Rights, Transformation, Understood

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

Genuine Happiness, Genuinely, Happy, Happy Person, Persons, Rendered

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

Complex, Future, May, Problems, Resolve, Vision

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Development, Further, Nuclear, Take, Weapons

Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

Advance, Dream, Dreams, Embrace, Your Dreams

Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.

Construct, Dream, Effort, Hard, Hard Work, Reality

The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.

Fiber, Moments, Nerve, Nerves, Resolve, Success

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

Difficult, Give, Giving Up, Instant, Life, Struggle

Strength is itself victory.

Strength, Victory

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