Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

You win people's hearts by helping them grow personally.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.

I never thought music could also bring you personal growth, but it truly has.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

Whether you're a movie star or doing time in a correctional institute, everybody can have bad judgment, and it's something you have to address. You learn to go on from it. It shouldn't stand in your way. You shouldn't let people continue to throw it in your face.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

I think love is like a learning process throughout your life. You learn how to be better at it and you learn more about it.

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.

No matter what choice you make, it doesn't define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there's ever a choice you've made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.