Haemin Sunim

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

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.

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.

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

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

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

The more natural, the better.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman …

I’m a product of pop culture.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

I don’t like when there’s too much conversation because I’m shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Seeing things that are bothering you written down takes away their power. It gives you a perspective. Helps you contain them.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.