Daily Quote

When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking. The key to achievement is to move forward along your chosen path with firm determination.

from ikedaquotes.org

Daily Encouragement

Joy is not simply your personal, egoistic happiness. Nor is it making others happy at the expense of your own happiness. You and others delighting together, you and others becoming happy together–this is the Mystic Law and the wondrous thing about our realm of kosen-rufu. Nichiren states, “Joy means that both oneself and others have wisdom and compassion” (Gosho Zenshu, p. 761).

from sgi.org