September 12

Happiness in life is never determined by how you appear, whether you have good looks or not, or whether you own lots of property or have assets or not. It is decided by the effort you put into transforming your life from within through your "human revolution". It depends on the good fortune that you have accumulated through your own deeds.

Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese Text:
人生は、外見や美貌で、また財産や資産などで、幸福が決まるのではない。その人自身の宿命転換の力と、その人のもつ生命の福運で決まる。
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, pg. 275)