Jo Jeong-min's bestseller "People Are a Gift" is now available in a compact wireless edition.
A 140-character collection of hopeful proverbs for those seeking the right direction in life and desperately in need of a word of wisdom.
Highly recommended as a gift for college entrance exam takers, teenagers, and beginners!!

I cry because of people and I laugh because of people.
Sometimes people are the most hateful and sometimes they are the most lovable.
Sometimes people are the hardest and sometimes people are the most rewarding.
So, the character for person (人) would have been added to the character for person (人).
As people live with other people, they become more human.
Soon to become human.
So how can one be human without neighbors?
When we look back on our lives, human memories are full of people.
Among them, the most vivid memory is of a person who came to me like a light.
Because of that, the path of life changed, my character changed, and the traces of life were renewed.
Where can you find such an amazing gift? Yes, it is.
The greatest gift in life is not wealth.
It's a person.
People are a gift.
People are the most precious gift.

- From the prologue

I'm not happy because I don't have money.
But having money doesn't make you happy.
I'm sick and not happy.
But being healthy doesn't mean being happy.
I'm not happy because I'm anonymous.
But being famous doesn't make you happy.
Happiness is… not a condition.
--- p.13

Humility is the attitude of considering others better than oneself.

It's difficult.

It’s not easy for someone like me to be here…
Moreover, if you force yourself to be humble, it becomes hypocrisy.
If you stop doing something, it becomes arrogance…
Humility is something that must be buried in manure to bloom.
It's a flower.
--- p.24

When leaving the jungle
Sometimes I climb up a big tree to check the direction.
Rest is a time for such inspection.
So you are not keeping the rest
Rest protects you.
--- p.29

I feel like my life is coming to an end…
It's a sign that my life needs to be reborn.
--- p.34

If each day is difficult, it is because you are climbing a high place.

If every day is comfortable and easy, it is a step towards the valley.

Sometimes we come across flat land, but no one lives a long walk on flat land.
--- p.38

Thoughts are the seeds of reality.
Despair is the root of hope.

Failure is a source of opportunity.
Limitations are the leaves of vision.

If you persevere to the end, flowers will bloom.

But… even that flower must wither to bear fruit.

The purpose of life is to bear fruit.
--- p.41

At twenty, I picked up a stone and said I would change the world.
He raised his eyes and said he would change his wife when he was 30.
At forty, he said he would change his children and got beaten…
At fifty... I realized that I was the one who needed to change.
I put down everything I had heard.
--- p.48

Kindness is never buried in the ground.

Even resentment doesn't flow away like a river.

Someday, everything will turn around and come back to me…
Spread it as you wish.

One day I will see the fruit of it in my life.
--- p.57

Corporal punishment in an Indian village… Every resident has a word to say
Tell me about the best thing in that person's life.
After hearing all that…
'He used to be a good person.
There is hope.'
Everything will be restored.
Can we do it too? Even at home… .
--- p.59

“The benefit of the night is the freedom to cry alone.”
The sad tears shed for oneself wet the earth.

But the despair of others is heartbreaking,
The tears that flow out of the world, lamenting the justice that should flow like a river,
It is contained in the teardrop bottle of heaven.

Tears are the blood of the soul.
--- p.69

It's neither surprising nor upsetting that people talk behind my back.
Gossip begins with words, and that's the extent of gossip.
Because you don't know me well.
If you knew me inside out, you would know much more
I must have spoken harshly.
--- p.77

If you don't change your mind about taking me there today,
That thought will take me there tomorrow too.

I am free to drag around the thoughts that drag my body around with me.

--- p.83