January 22

A good friend is like a text book, like a magnet that pulls you along towards the ideal.

-- Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese text:
YOKI YUJIN WA, ANATA NO KYOKASHO TO NARI, ANATA O RISO E TO HIPATTE KURERU JISHAKU TO NARO.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 31 pg.)

February 21st

First class individuals always place great importance on maintaining good relations with friends. They greatly cherish and value these bonds of trust and loyalty.

-- Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese text:
ICHIRYU NO JINKAKU NO HITO WA, YUJO O TETTEI SHITE TAISETSU NI SURU. SHINGI O OMONJIRU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 62 pg.)

February 15th

While it goes without saying that it is important to develop bonds of friendships with people around the world, it is even more important to nurture warm, friendly relations with the people living in our own neighborhoods and communities. The bonds of friendship and camaradarie that we cultivate with people around us, are the very treasures of our life.

-- Daisaku Ikeda

(Words of Encouragement to Women - 365 days, page 56.)

Japanese text:
SEKAI NO HITOBITO TO YUKO MO DAIJI DE ARU GA, TONARI KINJO TO NO YUKO WA MOTTO DAIJI DE ARU. YUKO, YUJO KOSO, JINSEI NO TAKARA DE ARU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 56 pg.)

August 4th

The most noble things in this world that we can really put our trust in, is friendship.
The ultimate proof of our humanness is the friendships that we have with people.

- Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese text:
この世で尊く、信じられるもの―――それは友情である。
人間としての究極の証は友情である。
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, pg. 235)

April 27th

Simple, ordinary citizens who care about the good of the world: May you become good neighbors, who are respected by one and all, who can pacify and purify the raging tempest that brews in a friend's heart, who act in good conscience for the sake of the community as well as the workplace. These are the qualities I seek in you. 

-- Daisaku Ikeda
April 27th

Japanese text:
HEIBON NARU YOKI SHIMIN, YOKI RINJIN TOSHITE, DARE KARA MO SHINRAI SARE, ARESUSANDA TOMO NO KOKORO O JOKA SHITE IKU, CHIIKI, SHOKUBA NO RYOSHIN TO NATTE HOSHI.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, pg. 130)

April 12th

I really hope that as parents you become good friends with your children. I know that there is no parent who doesn't feel instinctive love for their child. But what I want to ask of you, is that in addition to loving them, that you also deepen your friendship with them. To be friends means to respect them as wonderful individuals.

-- Daisaku Ikeda
April 12th

Japanese text:

OYA WA KODOMO NO YOKI TOMODACHI DE ARE TO WATASHI WA NEGAU. KODOMO NI AIJO O MOTANU OYA WA NAIGA, MO HITOTSU, YUJOU O MOTE TO IITAI. YUJO O MOTSU TO IU NO WA, KODOMO O RIPPA NA JINKAKU TOSHITE SONCHO SURU KOTO DE ARU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 115 pg.)

February 26th

When we wholeheartedly praise and applaud the success of our friends, and celebrate together with them in their moment of glory, good fortune accrues in our own lives. On the other hand, if we feel envious of them or make their achievement seem like it wasn't really that big an accomplishment after all, then we actually end up erasing our own good fortune. Women who can go the extent of helping their friends win success and good fortune are doctors of happiness.

-- Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese text:
EIYO NI KAGAYAITA TOMO O HOMETATAE, TOMO NI YOROKOBU HITO WA, SONO KOKORO NI FUKUTOKU GA TSUMARETE IKU. HANTAI NI, NETANDARI, TAISHITA KOTO WA NAI TO MIKUDASHITARI SURU HITO WA, JISHIN NO FUKUTOKU O KESHITE SHIMAU.

WAGA TOMO O KOFUKU NI SHIYUKU JOSEI GA, KOFUKU NO HAKASE NANODEARU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 67 pg.)