Daisaku Ikeda Love Quotes & Sayings

What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school. — Koren Zailckas

[Love that would] break open the hard shell of my lesser self. — Daisaku Ikeda

Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by. — Kurt Vonnegut

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. — Daisaku Ikeda

Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality. — Daisaku Ikeda

For me marketing is about how to present a project. — Pedro Winter

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing. — James Howard Kunstler

Optimism is a gift, but one that must be carefully controlled. Your hopeful optimism will get us all killed! — Noelle Crawford

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece. — Hedda Hopper

I love your laugh. I want to hear it every day. I want to be through all this darkness and devastation. I want happiness now. I want our due. I want what we've deserved from the beginning." He paused and stared deep into her eyes, willing her to understand how much he loved her. "I want you. — Sarah MacLean

What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society. — Daisaku Ikeda

There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side with or in the wake of evil, but it is never from the evil that the good comes; injustice and tyranny have never produced good fruits. Be assured that whenever they have the dominion, whenever the moral rights and personal liberties of men are trodden under foot by material force, be it barbaric or be it scientific, there can result only prolonged evils and deplorable obstacles to the return of moral right and moral force, which, God be thanked, can never he obliterated from the nature and the history of man. — Francois Guizot

The next person who kicks or hits him gets banned from all betting. You will be blackballed for the rest of your shriveled lives. Now back off.'

Amazingly, they all back off.

Everyone else might reject the locust victims, but I guess the twins don't discriminate in their betting pools.

Dee looks just as surprised as I am. He glances over at his brother. 'Dude, we're the new HBO.' He flashes a grin. — Susan Ee

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise. — Jerry Seinfeld

Recognise the great power and potential that manifests itself through your thoughts and your words. — Miya Yamanouchi

I was always reaching for love, but it turns out love doesn't involve reaching. I was always dreaming of the big love, the ultimate love, the love that would sweep me off my feet or 'break open the hard shell of my lesser self' (Daisaku Ikeda). The love that would bring on my surrender. The love that would inspire me to give everything. As I lay there, it occurred to me that while I had been dreaming of this big love, this ultimate love, I had, without realizing it, been giving and receiving love for most of my life. As with the trees that were right in front of me, I had been unable to value what sustained me, fed me, and gave me pleasure. And as with the trees, I was so busy waiting for and imagining and reaching and dreaming and preparing for this huge big love that I had totally missed the beauty and perfection of the soft-boiled eggs and Bolivian quinoa. — Eve Ensler

We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek and Gothic masters, for we have seen that the rectangle of the Egyptian triangle is a perfect generative medium, its ratio of five in width to eight in length 'encouraging impressions of contrast between horizontal and vertical lines' or spaces; and the same practically may be said of the Pythagorean triangle — Samuel Colman

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us. — Daisaku Ikeda

... then he sat on his bed and for a fraction of a second the shadows retreated and he had a fleeting glimpse of reality. He felt dizzy and he closed his eyes. Without knowing it he fell asleep. — Roberto Bolano

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. — John Steinbeck

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. — Daisaku Ikeda

Opportunities energize the faithful and paralyze the fearful. — Warren W. Wiersbe