If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy Quotes

“give up, I needed to do something, anything. And always, my struggle to hold on to a last straw earned me a new chance in the end. A new door leading to an entirely different world that I had never even considered before.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“I’m just saying that you need to keep an eye out for the pockets of happiness hidden in your everyday life.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Instead, learn to take everything as it comes, simply, so that your emotional muscle, just like your cardiac muscle, can grow stronger with practice.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“So what makes us worry? Usually, the root cause of all fears and worries is one and the same: our ignorance.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“You don’t need to carve out a huge amount of time for volunteering or donate a large sum of money. Sharing doesn’t have to be that difficult. You might put off donating until you’re financially secure and earning more than you currently do. But money isn’t the only thing you can share. If you think hard enough, you can undoubtedly find something you can share and come up with other ways to give back to your community.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Your partner is someone you need to accept, rather than comprehensively understand. Think about this – wasn’t one of the reasons you decided to get married in the first place the sure presence of someone who’d always be on your side? Didn’t you want from marriage someone who would accept you the way you are? Accept your partner, likewise, before you think to complain your partner won’t change. If you continue to stick with your biassed perspective, remain critical and refuse to accept your partner, you’ll always end up creating more conflicts.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Learning something new gives me immense pleasure, even though someone might wonder what I’m going to do with all this newly acquired knowledge in my eighties. But so what if I don’t make anything out of all this knowledge? Now that I’m this old, I should be free to explore whatever gives me pleasure, without worrying about putting it to use.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Trying to understand another person’s perspective – that’s the beginning of all great love.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Till my last day, it’s always her to whom I want to give the world.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“I’ve always explored this question – what causes us so much emotional, psychological suffering? In my experience, there are two major causes. One is regret about the past, the other is anxiety about the future. Both are inevitable, of course, but both need to be tempered. The past cannot be changed, regardless of your regret, and the future cannot be avoided, regardless of your anxiety. What’s worse, these two will keep eating away at the joy you can find, right now, in your life in the present.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“But in all this, there’s a silver lining. This grief that comes with life can also be healed by its smallest pleasures.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“But there’s only one secret to my so-called optimism, my reader. It’s just my sheer determination to look on the bright side and find joy under any or all unavoidable circumstances.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“After all, these ordinary, everyday moments are the key ingredients in the recipe for a happy life.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“At the end of the day lived to the fullest awaits a sweet, good night’s rest, and my reader, at the end of a life lived to the fullest awaits peaceful death. To those who lived their lives to the fullest (진인사 / 盡人事), heaven will finally answer for their wait (대천명 / 待天命). Such is the truth of Confucius’s famous words.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“It’s so easy to hold fate accountable, especially when things aren’t going your way, isn’t it? You know, go ahead and blame it all on fate. You’ve done your best, so go easy on yourself. I get it. But then, once you’ve gathered yourself, keep your chin up and start over.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Just as you need to rid your home of excess clutter to make it nice and tidy, you need to air out your heart to reach a state of emotional simplicity. And there’s no better way to get there than learning how to accept and express your feelings.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“. I was exhilarated that the little seed of good intention I’d planted two decades ago was finally coming to full fruition, and wanted to shout, for all to hear, from the rooftops.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“I dream of living the simple life of bare minimums and absolute essentials. And I want to invest all else in doing the kind of work that I find meaningful and engaging.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“dream of living the simple life of bare minimums and absolute essentials. And I want to invest all else in doing the kind of work that I find meaningful and engaging.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“As the German psychologist Erich Fromm said, I aspire for the ‘life of existence not possession’.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Money exists for our freedom, but we must not compromise our freedom for the sake of money. Don’t be afraid of living simply, or simpler. Learning to embrace a simple life can set you free in old age.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“One great virtue you can foster is the courage to live on little, if you need to.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“You may even overcome your worry and fear about money. You will find in yourself the bravery to make do with little.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Buddhists propose that there are seven non-material gifts, referred to as mujaechilshi (무재칠시 / 無財七施). These include a tender and comforting gaze, a face that beams with a compassionate smile, polite and beautiful words, kind actions, a gentle and understanding heart, the generosity to offer comfortable seats to others, and the kindness to provide someone with a place to sleep. Reflect on this, dear reader. Was it not the smallest act of kindness that always took you by surprise and moved you so? Offer to others what you seek in them.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“In old age, your partner is your best friend. Before you lose that irreplaceable friend, consider whether or not you too have allowed your clouded judgement to put them in a box.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Every day is now a surprising gift, and it still astounds me that I’ve survived all those close calls. Now, near the end of my life, I finally understand – because the shadow of death was always looming so close-by, my life burned brighter.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“Ever since the surgery, every single day, I now wake up with this first elated thought: What a miracle that I am granted another day, that I haven’t died overnight! I’ve learned to appreciate life in all its glorious ordinariness.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“But retirement doesn’t mean the end of the world. In order to feel grounded in your post-retirement life, you should learn to build and have in place a world of versatile hobbies.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“What do you truly desire? The answer to this question is the key to your happiness.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life

“From goal to process, from extrinsic motivation to self-motivation. This is the transformation of life you’ll need to go through in old age, sooner or later. Life is longer than you think, and will only get longer from here on out.”
― Rhee Kun Hoo, If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life