It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
All little creatures are beautiful…every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.
행복은 인간의 몸에 좋다. 하지만 인간의 정신력이 키워지는 것은 바로 깊은 슬픔의 체험을 통해서이다. (Happiness is beneficial for body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.)
If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don’t lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.
Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
우리들은 자신이 생각하고 있는 것만큼 행복하지도 그렇게 불행하지도 않다. (We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.)
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt (Destiny carries the willing man; and drags the unwilling)
In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family, be completely present. When you are content to simply be yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Acerbity [əˈsɜːbɪtɪ] 