Haemin Sunim

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

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

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

Life is like improvised jazz. We cannot regulate all the variables. We must play it with panache and flair as best we can.

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.

People create their own experiences.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Always pack your uniform on top.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.