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.)

September 25

Happy and fortunate are those who have someone in their lives whom they can trust, rely upon and talk to about anything, and at the same time, themselves be the kind of person whom others can rely upon.

Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese Text:
"信頼できる人、頼れる人、何でも相談できる人―――そういう人をもち、自分もそういう人になる。その人は幸福である。"
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, pg. 289)