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it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.


Daisaku Ikeda

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With love and patience, nothing is impossible. -Daisaku Ikeda.
DAISAKU IKEDA Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessar...
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
EURIPIDES There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
EURIPEDES We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who...
WILLIE NELSON While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as nece...
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
DON MARQUIS As a Buddhist monk my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentien...
DALAI LAMA The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific...
NORM TOMLINSON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love.
SARVESH JAIN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their p...
MIKE WHITE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
JONATHAN FRANZEN Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
JOHN HEYWOOD The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Chaos creates unhappiness. Unhappiness creates further chaos. Something like a multiplier effect. It...
SAURABH UBOWEJA Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAG Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFER Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST Just as a flower is made only of non-flower elements, Buddhism is made only of non-Buddhist elements...
THICH NHAT HANH Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glo...
DAVID O. MCKAY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Someone will always offer you their point of view, and some you will take - without even thinking ab...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
SRI CHINMOY There are a lot of similarities between Buddhist teachings and good management practices.
WANG FANGHUA Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessa...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
FRANCOISE SAGAN In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
DAVID STEINDL-RAST You like to claim that you’re in charge of the world, but it’s as if the world hasn’t noticed ...
TRISH MERCER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand.
THE SILVER ELVES Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more tha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware...
GRAHAM GREENE Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is ...
DENNIS PRAGER Fear is an unobtrusive freebee that comes unchallengeably with every thought & action.
ANUJ SOMANY The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchild...
GENE CRAWFORD My first relationship is with my brother. If I cannot maintain any relationship with him and I canno...
APURVA GAGLANI We talk about time travellers, but if you think about it we are already time travelling every second...
GARY F EVANS... The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA The happiness of a nation is not collective unless the nation is one of clowns. Neither is unhappine...
MARIANA FULGER If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more tha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Everyone is bound to be happy at many times in life. Happiness is nobody's monopoly. Ups and downs i...
CHANDRABABU V.S. He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,
STEWART STAFFORD Is this the end of all the endings?
My broken bones are mending
With all these nights we'r...
TAYLOR SWIFT How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Buddhist teachings are meant to awaken our true self, not merely to add to our storehouse of knowled...
THICH NHAT HANH Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA It is impossible for the fools to tread the path of learned ones.
RIG VEDA The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
JACINTA MPALYENKANA You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
JAMES ALLEN It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible...
THOMAS PAINE It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
ROALD DAHL I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Happiness Is. Happiness is here, now, in this moment. Happiness is not about what you have in your l...
JANINE LATTIMORE What a glorious day it is today; We are closer to Christ return than yesterday and a day closer to a...
JOHN M. SHEEHAN All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their ...
DALAI LAMA XIV Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOY Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to Go...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does no...
JON KATZ Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Motivation is an awakening of the mind to be kind with own words towards others; Inspiration is an a...
ANUJ SOMANY This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one’s ha...
ZAMAN ALI Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then b...
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