September 20

How do we live a life of value?
Not by thinking about how things have been so far,
but by focusing on how we should live from now on.
It is this kind of powerful, forward-looking attitude
that really opens up our lives.


-- Daisaku Ikeda
(Words of Encouragement to Women - 365 days, page 283.)

Japanese text:
KACHI NO ARU JINSEI O HIRAKU MONO - SORE WA [IMA MADE DO DE ATTA KA] DEWA NAI. [KORE KARA DO IKIRU NO KA], KONO CHIKARA ZUYOI MAEMUKI NO ICHINEN DE ARU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 283 pg.)