Daily Encouragement

A selection of quotes from Daisaku Ikeda’s published works on inspiration for daily living.

May 2

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

From Lectures on the “Expedient Means” and “Life Span” Chapters of the Lotus Sutra.