Regard your study as an enviable opportunity

"Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal job and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."

--By Einstein, In the Princeton freshman publication The Dink, 1933; quoted in Don Oberdorfer, Princeton: The First 250 Years (Princeton University Press, 1955), p. 127.

create or contribute something that benefit others -- lead a life of value

January 13

A life lived without purpose or value, the kind in which one doesn't know the reason why one was born, is joyless and lackluster. To just live, eat and die without any real sense of purpose surely represents a life pervaded by the world of Animality. On the other hand, to do, create or contribute something that benefits others, society and ourselves and to dedicate ourselves as long as we live up to that challenge--that is a life of true satisfaction, a life of value. It is a humanistic and lofty way to live.

Daisaku Ikeda, SGI President

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Regards,

Mr Chang C.L.

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Make the decision to win before embarking on battle

Humility means doing your best in your present circumstances.

Humility means doing your best in your present circumstances and situation, working together harmoniously with those around you.  Arrogance, on the other hand, is doing whatever you please, without thinking about anyone else.  Arrogance is wrong and will bring one misfortune.
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Regards,

Mr Chang C.L.

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Pursue studies with high ideals

Please do not spend your youth avoiding hardship and taking the path of least resistance.  Please seek out difficult challenges and work hard.  And if you are going to take on hardships, let it be for the sake of high ideal.  Do not stay closed up in your own tiny shell, pursue your studies with the high ideals of helping your friends and contributing to society and humanity.  This is where the true significance of the pursuit of learning lies.
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Live a life crammed full of memories

Youth is a truly, wonderful thing.  Unfortunately though, this is often something that's hard to appreciate when we are young.  Life passes by quickly.  Before we know it, we are old.  That's why in our youth we should be as active as we possibly can.  Rather than a life of blank pages, live a life crammed full of memories -- of battles well fought and wonderfully diverse experiences, not to leave behind any history.  Just to grow old (uneventfully) and die, is a sad way to live.