Haemin Sunim

Choose happiness, not success, as your life’s goal. If you become successful but aren’t happy, then what is the point?

You are beautiful not because you are better than others, but because there is only you who can smile like that.

The secret of happiness? Live life in the slow lane.

If you wish to clear away the clouds of thought, simply keep your mind in the present.

The most dangerous people are those who have passion but lack wisdom.

Life’s three best teachers: heartbreak, empty pocket, failures.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

If she doesn’t acknowledge what happened, then how can we trust that she is going to be different in the future?

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A h** neva gets cold