Nichiren (日蓮; 16 February 1222 – 13 October 1282), born as Zen-nichi-maro (善日麿), was a Japanese Buddhist priest who lived during the Kamakura period (1185–1333).
If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way
Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds. It is the same with a Buddha and an ordinary being. While deluded, one is called an ordinary being, but when enlightened, one is called a Buddha. This is similar to a tarnished mirror that will shine like a jewel when polished.
Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.
Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.
The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all.
One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.
Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold.
Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.
It is the heart that is important.
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?
Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure. They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.
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.
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.
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.
A coward cannot have any prayer answered.
Faith Alone is what really matters.