The act of simply giving a gift is an act of giving a gift of chance.
Humans feel happiness from good things that happen by chance.
It is no coincidence that the Chinese character interpretation of the word happiness (幸福) means ‘a good thing that happens by chance.’
The level of happiness cannot go beyond the level of relationships, and the level of relationships cannot go beyond the level of 'just'.
If you have friends who just contact you without any reason, you are not lonely.
If there are people you want to give gifts to for no reason, you are already a happy person.

--- p.18 From “The Secret Weapon of Happy Geniuses, ‘Just’”

We should not only nurture geniuses with outstanding intelligence, but also geniuses who love what they do.
Preferences for likes and dislikes are both innate and largely acquired.
If you hang out with people who like a lot of things, you'll end up liking a lot of things.
When you live in a society where asking what you like is commonplace, your likes become clear.
The question we should ask each other is not our children's academic background or the balance in our bank accounts, but the balance of the things we like.

--- p.32 From “Happy Geniuses Have Many Things They Like”

When everyone is obsessed with real-time, you have to decide to be one beat behind.
We need to rebel against the habit of turning on our smartphones.
It may seem like you're constantly busy being online, but you're actually lazy. It may seem like you're actively exploring the world, but you're actually indolent, never taking a single step toward the world.
It's just busyness for the sake of being busy.
Indifference to things that do not necessarily need to be known is the most active interest in the world.
Another secret weapon of happiness geniuses.
--- p.51 From “Happy Geniuses Don’t Know What They Don’t Need to Know”

The decisive factor that made the empire of extroversion impregnable is psychology.
The status of extroversion, which was once considered arrogant, has been further elevated by the proliferation of studies showing that extroversion is beneficial to happiness.
Are you saying that it is difficult for introverts to be happy?
(…) Signs of a virus-induced collapse began to appear in this seemingly impregnable empire of extroversion.
The optimal environment has been created for introverts.
As their signature 'social distancing' emerged as the new rule of the game, the extroverted rule of narrowing social distance was pushed to the back burner.

--- p.80 From “An Introvert Comes”

There is absolutely no need for 'meaningful people' to be discouraged.
People who quietly fulfill their calling even if they are not particularly happy, people who endure their daily lives without any small happiness to boast of, people who fight against injustice and absurdity, people who suffer for their religious beliefs – these meaningful people have the same strength as the fun-loving people.

--- p.85 From “The Meaningful Man Comes”

The right person is someone who doesn't discourage others by tossing around the name of happiness, who doesn't instill the fear that if you're not happy, you'll be a loser, who always takes a step back because loud happiness campaigns don't suit their constitution, and who simply finds satisfaction in each moment.
How alienated have we been, mistaking constant excitement and excitement for happiness? The age of contentment is now upon us.

--- p.90 From “The Hapjok (洽族) is Coming”

'The people who harass me must be strange people.
How else could they misunderstand someone like me? Could that really be true? How strange must I have seemed to them? Wouldn't a world where only I was normal be a truly strange world?
I might be a fool to someone too.
If everyone around you starts to look strange, you need to realize that you yourself look strange in the eyes of others.
Additionally, you must acknowledge that you have mental senility.
The eyes that see people are clouded.
The world is still full of good people, better people, and really better people.

--- p.126 From “You Are Someone’s Too”

The world only gives us practice in winning.
The habit of winning has become a symbol of success, and embracing the pain of those who lost has become a virtue of the successful.
But the world's great problems are not caused by those who fail to win, but by those who fail to support.
How many times have problems that could have been resolved amicably been aggravated by the emotional struggles of those who have never lost and do not know how to lose?
Isn't the misconduct of those in power and the elite due to their chronic disease of not being able to support themselves?

--- p.139 From “I Hate People Who Don’t Support”

The questions our society primarily asks are about economic wealth and social status.
They ask if you earn a lot of money, but they don't ask if you live autonomously.
They ask if you work for a big company, but they don't ask if you are respected.
They ask about the size of your apartment, but they don't ask if you're lonely.
It is a society where questions about the inner self have disappeared.
You have to ask your own questions.
A country must create a signature question that reveals the essence of its existence.
Because the dignity of an individual or a society cannot exceed the dignity of the questions it poses.

--- p.169 From “I am attracted to people who have their own questions”

My boss's texts are always short.
When a subordinate sends a long document detailing the circumstances, the superior simply responds with a 'okay'.
Power is inversely proportional to the length of the reply.
Are bosses so busy they can't even finish a single sentence? Thinking about my son's texts, which are always filled with "yes" and "no," I don't think being busy is the answer.
It is clear that it is a severe disease of power that one knows about but cannot fix.
I want to be someone who writes long replies.
People who work with such a boss may be blessed.

--- p.229 From "The Boss's Short Answer"