May 20th

Put your utmost effort in the task right before you!
Throw yourself upon the challenge you have for today!
Absorb yourself in the mission that is yours alone!
Here is where you will find victory.

- Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese text:
今の仕事に全力で当たれ!
今日の課題に懸命に挑め!
足元の己の使命に徹せよ！
そこに勝利がある。

IMA NO SHIGOTO NI ZENRYOKU DE ATARE!
KYO NO KADAI NI KENMEI NI IDOME!
ASHIMOTO NO ONORE NO SHIMEI NI TESSEYO!
SOKO NI SHORI GA ARU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, pg. 155)

July 30th

Till the final years of his life, king of comedy, Charlie Chaplin, always responded to the question: "What according to you, is your masterpiece", by saying: "It's going to be the next one".

As long as one maintains the spirit to keep on challenging, there are really no deadlocks in life. It's not that we walk because there is a path, rather, it is because we walk that we can pave a path for ourselves.

- Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese text:
喜劇王チャップリンは、晩年にいたるまで「あなたの最高傑作は？」という質問に対して、いつも「ネクスト・ワン（次の作品）」と答えたという。挑戦の魂に行き詰まりはない。道があるから歩くのではなく、歩くから道ができるのだ。
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, pg. 229)

June 27th

Those who possess the spirit to challenge, never face a deadlock. There is a western proverb that says "Fortune smiles on those who dare." Everything begins with taking action. When we start taking action, our wisdom begins to emerge.

- Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese text:
挑戦の魂に行き詰まりはない。「幸運は、挑戦する人間にこそ微笑む」との西洋のことわざがあるが、すべては行動から始まる。行動を開始すれば、知恵がわく。

CHOSEN NO TAMASHI NI IKIZUMARI WA NAI. [KOUN WA, CHOSEN SURU NINGEN NI KOSO HOHOEMU] TO SEIYO NO KOTOWAZA GA ARU GA, SUBETE WA KODO KARA HAJIMARU. KODO O KAISHI SUREBA, CHIE GA WAKU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, pg. 194)

October 2

A brand new history begins when one individual takes up a new challenge. Lamenting on one's lot, blaming it all on one's circumstances will change nothing. The world changes to the extent that we do.

- Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese Text:
"新たな歴史は一人の挑戦から始まる。偉大な勝利は一人の戦いから始まる。状況を嘆いたり、人任せにしてばかりいては、
何も変わらない。自分が変われば、その分、世界が変わる。"
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, pg. 297)