Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

I want everyone to know there is always someone there for you.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

One thing that we can do for each other is support each other. At one point or another, we all go through trials and tribulations, so giving your time is one way to help.

We must absolutely take care of one another.

We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

Social support is everything.

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.