Haemin Sunim

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good;be good for something.All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.