Haemin Sunim

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

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

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

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.

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

I’m always smiling and happy.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

I love people who make me laugh.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

It’s time for you to claim the happiness that you deserve in your life.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.