Haemin Sunim

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.

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.

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

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

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

Every loss of life is terrible.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.