In giving guidance, leaders must continually ask themselves: “What can I say to lift this person’s spirits?” “What kind of encouragement can I offer, what can I do, to enable this person to advance joyfully?” Having this spirit of concern is crucial.
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, p. 185

Daisaku Ikeda

When embraced by the great life state of Buddhahood, we ourselves, those around us, and the land in which we live will all shine with the light of happiness and hope. This is the power of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo of the actual three thousand realms in a single moment of life.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, p. 155

Daisaku Ikeda

Our struggles with the many hardships that arise in the course of our Buddhist practice are part of a grand drama, a towering epic, that we are performing on the stage of this brief lifetime to achieve magnificent and everlasting victories in our lives and in kosen-rufu.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 52

Daisaku Ikeda