We cannot truly nurture and develop an individual based on ideas alone. Only by moving and exerting ourselves, at times through tears and pain, at others by laughing together - it is in the midst of such interactions with others that the lives of human beings get polished and acquire finish.
-- Daisaku Ikeda
March 19th
Japanese text:
KANNEN DAKEDEWA, SHIN NI NINGEN O SODATERU KOTO WA DEKIMASEN. JISSAI NI KARADA O UGOKASHI, ASE O NAGASHI, TOMONI NAKI, TOMO NI WARAI - SOSHITA NINGENDOSHI NO UCHIAI NO NAKA DE KOSO, HITO WA MIGAKARETE IKU MONO DESU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 90 pg.)
-- Daisaku Ikeda
March 19th
Japanese text:
KANNEN DAKEDEWA, SHIN NI NINGEN O SODATERU KOTO WA DEKIMASEN. JISSAI NI KARADA O UGOKASHI, ASE O NAGASHI, TOMONI NAKI, TOMO NI WARAI - SOSHITA NINGENDOSHI NO UCHIAI NO NAKA DE KOSO, HITO WA MIGAKARETE IKU MONO DESU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 90 pg.)