Haemin Sunim

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

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

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

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

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.