Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people.

Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. And so I'm happy if I'm with Ann; I'm happier if I'm also with my family and my grandchildren.

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

It's important how we feel in our homes, because feeling good makes us more gracious. And that makes it easier to welcome others not only into our homes but into our lives.

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

When you give people ability to stay connected with all the people they care about, and you make it so they can express new things about themselves or in communication with other people who they care about, then you just open up new possibilities. You make it so people can stay connected in ways that they couldn't before.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.