In particular, those who lead undefeated lives, following through on the beliefs that they vowed to uphold in their youth, are the strongest and most admirable of all.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 195

Daisaku Ikeda

Buddhism teaches us that we each write and perform the script of our own lives. No one else writes that script for us. We write it, and we are the star who performs it. This extremely active life philosophy is inherent in the teaching of three thousand realms in a single moment of life.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, p. 165

Daisaku Ikeda

Since my youth, my motto has been “The greater the resistance waves meet, the stronger they grow.”
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 188

Daisaku Ikeda