Thought of the Moment

I hugged my mom's dead body and cried.  That's when I realized that I had never really hated her. I just wanted to embrace her and reconcile with her.  I just wanted to hug her for a very long time and cry as much as I needed to.

죽은 어머니를 안고 울며 난 그제서야 알았다. 난 평생 어머니 이 사람을 미워했던 게 아니라 화해하고 싶었다는 걸. 이렇게 오래 안고 지금처럼 실컷 울고 싶었다는 걸.

- Our Blues | 우리들의 블루스  Read more

Money that is easy to produce is no money at all, and easy money does not make a society richer; on the contrary, it makes it poorer by placing all its hard‐earned wealth for sale in exchange for something easy to produce.

- Saifedean Ammous Read more

It's easier to love than it is to hate.

Hate weighs us down. Love liberates us. Read more

Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness and still become something beautiful.

- Beau Taplin Read more

What if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you feel deeply grateful for today?

The highest level of living requires that we are mindful of all that we are truly grateful for today. Read more

We are here to be real, not to be perfect. Read more

Good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

- Charles H. Spurgeon Read more

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. Read more

There is a twilight zone in our hearts that we ourselves cannot see. Even when we know quite a lot about ourselves - our gifts and weaknesses, our ambitions and aspirations, our motives and our drives - large parts of ourselves remain in the shadow of consciousness. This is a very good thing. We will always remain partially hidden to ourselves. Other people, especially those who love us, can often see our twilight zones better than we ourselves can. The way we are seen and understood by others is different from the way we see and understand ourselves. Read more

Our worth is determined by how much truth we can tolerate.

- Nietzsche Read more