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Justice will perish if people fail to be angered by evil.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, p. 269

Daisaku Ikeda

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Only with all-out effort, with the determination to create something from nothing, can we understand genuine faith. The intense, arduous struggle of creating value—turning loss into benefit, evil into good, baseness into beauty—is the Soka Gakkai spirit and the essence of our practice of Nichiren Buddhism.
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 221

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Happiness is not something given to us by others or that comes from somewhere outside. It is something that we ourselves must achieve with our own hearts. As the Daishonin says, “It is the heart that is important” (WND-1, 1000). From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 88

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