Spring is beautiful.

The growth of a youthful life is even more beautiful.

In growth lies a limitless future.

When one strives mightily for one's goals, nothing is

impossible.

Daily Encouragement (04 July 2008)

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"In my youth, as a student of 'Toda University', I studied the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in Japanese novelist Eiji Yoshikawa's retelling of the classic Chinese tale. Zhuge Liang (Chuko K'ung-ming, 181-234), one of its leading characters, left an indelible impression on my mind. On friendship, he once said: 'It is difficult to sustain associations motivated by ambition for power or profit. When men of true integrity get to know and understand each other, their friendship endures without fading throughout the four seasons, neither blooming extravagantly in the warmth nor dropping its leaves in the cold....It becomes stronger with each passing period of
fortune or adversity'. Let's strive to forge these kind of lasting friendships.

Second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda stressed to me the importance of extending a hand of friendship to people when they experience hard or challenging times, and of warmly supporting and encouraging them, standing by them with unchanging sincerity and goodwill. Please remember that this is the Soka spirit of friendship."

SGI Newsletter No. 7579, 8th NATIONWIDE YOUTH DIVISION LEADERS MEETING--PART 2 [OF 2], Win through Courage, Triumph with Valour. (At the 8th Nationwide Youth Division Leaders Meeting, held in conjunction with the Future Division General Meeting and the Soka Alumni Meeting, at the Soka University
Auditorium in Hachioji, Tokyo, on May 4th, 2008.). From the May 13th, 2008 issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated July 2nd, 2008

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