1510 quotes by japanese authors for you to enjoy

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires. Chiaki Kuriyama

Once Punching Kicking Weapons Wires Got Moved Moved On Then Working Proficient Started Basics

The gratification of desire is not happiness. Daisaku Ikeda

Happiness Gratification Desire

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. Daisaku Ikeda

Work Nature Democracy Progress Remember Incomplete Think Everywhere Need

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process. Daisaku Ikeda

Knowledge Rights Learning Commitment Experience Action Human Rights Through Crucial Simply Learning Process Role Human Cannot Process Transmission Fostered Play

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. Daisaku Ikeda

The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose. Daisaku Ikeda

People Matter Country Fall Victim Awareness Living Weapons Threat Shadow Individual Crucial Never Arouse Permit Continue Any Human Refusal Each Express Each Individual Conscience Nuclear Thing Nuclear Weapons Pose

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization. Daisaku Ikeda

Further Must Weapons Prevent Take Development Steps Modernization Nuclear Nuclear Weapons

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts. Daisaku Ikeda

Feelings Believe Defeat Our Must Take Allow Hearts Root

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction. Daisaku Ikeda

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual. Daisaku Ikeda

Dignity Welfare Opportunity Problems Our Ensure Individual Rethink Personal Order Personal Lives Social Aging Each Each Individual Lives Present

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. Daisaku Ikeda

Nature Become Society Other Fragmented Cosmos Divorced Each Fractured

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another. Daisaku Ikeda

Life Time Heart Own Poems Outpouring Take Songs Unstoppable Another Pass Limits Person Nationality Transcend

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others. Daisaku Ikeda

War Others Our Scale Strive Must Rather Misery Develop Empathize Feel Caused Than Staggering Capacity Depth Turning Away Sufferings

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them. Daisaku Ikeda

Leadership People Goals Power Young Nothing Way More Sacrifices Raw Altar Genuine Demonic Ceaseless Than Efforts Young People Them Pave Exploits Forward Foster Found

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future. Daisaku Ikeda

Hope Future History Communicate Truths Act

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. Dogen

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. Dogen

Great Water Mountains Running Color Buddha Sound His Body Speech

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. Eisaku Sato

Government People Harmony Signed Pursuing Tenure Also Policy Non-Proliferation Conclusion Office Japanese Avowed Agreed Nuclear Desire Treaty

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. Eisaku Sato

War Peace People World Progress Prosperity Made World Peace Promote Through Since Am Years Contributing Efforts Japanese Japanese People Mankind Convinced Strenuous World War World War II Preserve

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II. Eisaku Sato

War Time History People World Soil First Own Variety Horrors Involved First Time Were Subsequently Modern Experienced Experiencing Modern Warfare Warfare Japanese Japanese People International Eventually Disputes World War World War II

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability. Eisaku Sato

War World Worse Bore Seeds Could Factors Instability Contain Within However Been End Did Established Order Which Them Certain Certainly International World War World War II

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