March 19th

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.)