In life, the "season" of youth comes but once. What seeds are you planting in your life during this precious period? What are you engraving? What are you devoting your youthful passion towards? All of these things will have a critical impact on your whole future.
—生只有一次的青春时代，在自己的青春生命里，播下怎样的种子？刻下什么历史？用青春的热情燃烧点什么？这大概会决定人的一生。
LEADERS WHO ARE responsible for organising and holding discussion meetings in the SGI must study. If they do not, they cannot hope to satisfy the participants and inspire them with fresh energy and enthusiasm.
A FIRE BuRNs higher when logs are added, and a strong wind makes a kalakula grow larger. The pine tree lives for ten thousand years, and therefore its boughs become bent and twisted. The votary of the Lotus Sutra is like the fire and the kalakula, while his persecutions are like the logs and the wind.
The Difficulty of Sustaining Faith (WND, 471)
