Haemin Sunim

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.

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

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

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

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

I do not like to be unkind.

I think I am basically a happy person.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.