“That sentence saved my life!”
The first essay and English transcription therapy by Sejin, a star English instructor and YouTube creator with 260,000 subscribers.

Sejin, a YouTuber and English education expert, gained much attention by revealing her ADHD symptoms and the pain of being bullied during her school days through the TV program "Oh Eun-young's Golden Counseling Center."
Numerous subscribers sent messages of support and encouragement after seeing the painful confessions and experiences of the star English instructor, who always showed off her fluent English skills with a bright and cheerful demeanor.
And she received requests from numerous parents and students who sympathized with her story and asked her to write a book.


Just as English became a refuge and a ray of hope for him in moments of pain and difficulty, the author says that studying English and life have a lot in common.
For those who are constantly experiencing frustration and failure in their English studies, as in life, he has published his first essay and handwritten English book, carefully selecting handwritten phrases that have provided comfort and inspiration along with genuine motivational messages from his own life experiences.
I hope this book will be a source of strength for everyone who experiences difficult times at least once. I encourage you to personally experience, enjoy, and appreciate the power of famous English quotes from classics that offer comfort and courage in life when you feel anxious and shaken.

I hesitated a lot before writing this article, which is the first time I can honestly tell my story.
But in the end, I was convinced that these were words that someone needed.
As I navigate life, the thing that has helped me the most in moments of urgency and desperation is to keep a book I enjoyed reading by my side and to write down the passages in a notebook over and over whenever I'm having a hard time.
After living in society for over 10 years, I have come to rely on and seek out notebooks and pens more and more.
I have come to experience the true power of desperation more deeply.
I would like to introduce a collection of hand-written sentences that have inspired my life, as I have gained strength and been able to get back on my feet through the many words I encountered in the classics.
--- p.11

For a child with ADHD, things like honesty and sociability were luxuries they couldn't even dare to desire.
I didn't even know what was bothering me so much until I became an adult and went to a psychiatrist on my own and was diagnosed with severe ADHD and panic disorder.
Why can't I listen calmly like the other kids in class, but instead, I'm preoccupied with doodling? Why have I never received a grade on those simple performance assessments that require just gathering and submitting handouts like everyone else? Why can't I get along with my friends? Why do the motor in my head and the fire in my chest keep tormenting me without a moment's rest?
--- p.49

The 'stay awake during class' practice I had been practicing for a long time started to take effect around that time.
Not only English classes, but also subjects like literature and modern and contemporary history began to gradually enter my ears.
Am I a kid who can do it? Is it okay if I face it, don't give up, and challenge myself? As I began to gain momentum, I began to vaguely realize this.
Achievement is the accumulation of time, and failure is defined by when I stop accumulating it.
Whether I failed or not was entirely up to my choice.
--- p.109

Suddenly, it occurred to me that the hardships I had experienced in life were not entirely unfortunate.
Rather, I wondered if all of that had been a stroke of luck for me. Because of ADHD, I'd been struggling with it since I was a child, constantly immersed in things and living in states of inattention.
I had emotional ups and downs and collapsed countless times, but I struggled to get back up each time.
The habit of relying on a schedule to get through each day.
My tendency to seek fulfillment as if it were an obsession.
These are the things that ultimately made me a person who never gives up, and this time was no different.
--- pp.162-163

Everyone has times in life when they want to go to a place they've always dreamed of.
When someone encounters such a moment in life, I thought that if there was something I could do for them, it would be 'English'.
I also wanted to be a member of society and help others.
All I had to do was create an elaborate ladder for them to climb up that one step.
Once I realized what the most valuable thing I could do was, I couldn't stop.
The ripple effect of the teaching that started by chance was that great.
In their shining eyes, I saw the eighteen-year-old me I so desperately wanted to hold hands with.

--- p.275