The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Daisaku Ikeda

Daisaku Ikeda

Any Contributions Essential Experience Flourishing Long-Term Older Older People People Recognizing Resource Society Wisdom Worth

Related Quotes

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

— Daisaku Ikeda

EnjoymentEssentialExtreme

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

— Daisaku Ikeda

EachEncouragementExtend

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

— Dolly Parton

AnyAnymoreAttitude

Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

— Daisaku Ikeda

AncientAncient TimesAsia

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

— Daisaku Ikeda

BecomeCosmosDivorced