Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.

Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

It helps me when I help people.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.

It is only in helping someone else to awake that I awake.

Do good to others, be good to yourselves.

We should be with people who are in need.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.

Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.