“The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours. The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.” FeelsHeartMaySoulAgePainSpiritDiesDoubtOur LivesFailingCreationFlowerBreathsWaveChecksFirmThrillTremblingFrostMessengersTriumphantKeep The FaithSad Soul Book:Poems Source: Poems
“The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.” SocialSecretOur LivesSocietyStageFlowerSummerSpringFruitProfitAutumnAlchemy Author:Honore de Balzac
“None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.” YearsFirstsMayEvilPiecesOur LivesChildhoodYouthFlowerBrokenCastsLovelyImmortalityIntangibleIvoryMouldOdorRemnantsLovely Things Book:A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days
“We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.” HardUseLawLyingPracticeStruggleOur LivesFlowerKeysVictorySpringWinterBrilliantMeaningfulWeatherEach DayHardshipMysticTriumphantLive Each Day Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.” WayLoveLifeShouldProblemFallGrowsOur LivesFlowerUnderstoodLove LifeWeedNo Problem Author:Shunryu Suzuki