Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

In a time of destruction, create something.

In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

All the negativity that was once around me has turned into all this positivity.

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.