It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.
Daisaku IkedaRead
Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
Interpretation
Overcoming difficulties leads to personal growth and understanding.
This quote emphasizes that experiencing hardships and challenges can transform individuals, nurturing strength, wisdom, and compassion. It suggests that those who endure suffering often emerge with a deeper sense of happiness and fulfillment, as they learn from their struggles and develop empathy towards others.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire resilience in students.
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.
Thereβs no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.
True love should be transformative; a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Only to the extent that we polish ourselves now can we hope to develop wonderful bonds of the heart in the future.
Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.
Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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