Running after an easygoing, trouble-free existence, or avoiding hard work and challenges, is in fact a very unhappy way to spend our youth. While on the surface, this kind of lifestyle may appear to embody the ideal state of freedom, quite on the contrary, it will lead us to spend the final moments of our life as losers with no real freedom. When it is time to exert ourselves and work hard, we should do so, when it is time to study, we should do so. This is in fact the happiest way to spend our youth. A youth spent this way is like the foundation stone that will support us for the rest of our lives.
-- Daisaku Ikeda
Japanese text:
WAKAI TOKI NI ANITSU O MUSABORI, KURO SHINAI NO WA, FUKO NA SEISHUN DE ARU. JIBUN DEWA JIYU NA TSUMORIDE ITE, KEKKYOKU, SAIGO WA FUJIYU NA HAIBOKUSHA TO NATTE SHIMAU.
KURO SUBEKI TOKI NI KURO SHI, BENKYO SUBEKI TOKI NI BENKYO SURU NO GA, KOFUKU NA SEISHUN DE ARU. SORE GA, ISSHOGAI NO KOFUKU NO ISHIZUE TO NARU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 72 pg.)
-- Daisaku Ikeda
Japanese text:
WAKAI TOKI NI ANITSU O MUSABORI, KURO SHINAI NO WA, FUKO NA SEISHUN DE ARU. JIBUN DEWA JIYU NA TSUMORIDE ITE, KEKKYOKU, SAIGO WA FUJIYU NA HAIBOKUSHA TO NATTE SHIMAU.
KURO SUBEKI TOKI NI KURO SHI, BENKYO SUBEKI TOKI NI BENKYO SURU NO GA, KOFUKU NA SEISHUN DE ARU. SORE GA, ISSHOGAI NO KOFUKU NO ISHIZUE TO NARU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 72 pg.)
