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Top 25 Chade-Meng Tan Quotes (2025 Update)

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “Success does not lead to happiness; instead, happiness leads to success.”

1. “Success does not lead to happiness; instead, happiness leads to success.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “Aristotle said, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

2. “Aristotle said, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

3. “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “To quote Viktor Frankl, “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.”

4. “To quote Viktor Frankl, “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “The more we are able to create space between stimulus and reaction, the more control we will have over our emotional lives.”

5. “The more we are able to create space between stimulus and reaction, the more control we will have over our emotional lives.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “Or as Michael Jordan says, “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

6. “Or as Michael Jordan says, “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “If you want to become an agent of change, you have to remember to keep your sense of humor.”

7. “If you want to become an agent of change, you have to remember to keep your sense of humor.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “Thich Nhat Hanh has a very nice way of putting it: wilting flowers do not cause suffering; it is the unrealistic desire that flowers not wilt that causes suffering.”

8. “Thich Nhat Hanh has a very nice way of putting it: wilting flowers do not cause suffering; it is the unrealistic desire that flowers not wilt that causes suffering.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “Perhaps the most important thing is to constantly aspire to serve the greater good. If you always try to practice compassion and you are always trying to benefit the people around you and beyond, the good people around you will love you and want to help you.”

9. “Perhaps the most important thing is to constantly aspire to serve the greater good. If you always try to practice compassion and you are always trying to benefit the people around you and beyond, the good people around you will love you and want to help you.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “The more you attend to thin slices of joy, the more easily you can access them.”

10. “The more you attend to thin slices of joy, the more easily you can access them.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “A beautiful way to practice mindfulness, which is almost guaranteed to improve your social life, is to apply mindfulness toward others for the benefit of others. The idea is very simple – give your full moment-to-moment attention to another person with a nonjudgmental mind, and every time your attention wanders away, just gently bring it back. It is just like the meditation we have been practicing, except the object of meditation is the other person. You.”

11. “A beautiful way to practice mindfulness, which is almost guaranteed to improve your social life, is to apply mindfulness toward others for the benefit of others. The idea is very simple – give your full moment-to-moment attention to another person with a nonjudgmental mind, and every time your attention wanders away, just gently bring it back. It is just like the meditation we have been practicing, except the object of meditation is the other person. You.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “When your meta-attention becomes strong, you will be able to recover a wandering attention quickly and often, and if you recover attention quickly and often enough, you create the effect of continuous attention, which is concentration.”

12. “When your meta-attention becomes strong, you will be able to recover a wandering attention quickly and often, and if you recover attention quickly and often enough, you create the effect of continuous attention, which is concentration.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “The real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

13. “The real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “What we think, do, and pay attention to changes the structure and functions of our brains!”

14. “What we think, do, and pay attention to changes the structure and functions of our brains!”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “Listening is magic: it turns a person from an object outside, opaque or dimly threatening, into an intimate experience, and therefore into a friend. In this way, listening softens and transforms the listener.”

15. “Listening is magic: it turns a person from an object outside, opaque or dimly threatening, into an intimate experience, and therefore into a friend. In this way, listening softens and transforms the listener.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one. – Dale Carnegie.”

16. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one. – Dale Carnegie.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things – that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It’s a discipline; you have to practice it.”

17. “If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things – that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It’s a discipline; you have to practice it.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “She wrote two versions of her obituary. The first version reflected how things would turn out given her then-current life trajectory. The second version reflected the life she aspired to live.”

18. “She wrote two versions of her obituary. The first version reflected how things would turn out given her then-current life trajectory. The second version reflected the life she aspired to live.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “People who are optimistic react to setbacks from a presumption of personal power. They feel that setbacks are temporary, are isolated to particular circumstances, and can eventually be overcome by effort and abilities. In contrast, people who are pessimistic react to setbacks from a presumption of personal helplessness. They feel that setbacks are long lasting, generalized across their lives, and are due to their own inadequacies, and therefore cannot be overcome.”

19. “People who are optimistic react to setbacks from a presumption of personal power. They feel that setbacks are temporary, are isolated to particular circumstances, and can eventually be overcome by effort and abilities. In contrast, people who are pessimistic react to setbacks from a presumption of personal helplessness. They feel that setbacks are long lasting, generalized across their lives, and are due to their own inadequacies, and therefore cannot be overcome.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “The key is to let go of two things: grasping and aversion. Grasping is when the mind desperately holds on to something and refuses to let it go. Aversion is when the mind desperately keeps something away and refuses to let it come. These two qualities are flip sides of each other. Grasping and aversion together account for a huge percentage of the suffering we experience, perhaps 90 percent, maybe even 100 percent.”

20. “The key is to let go of two things: grasping and aversion. Grasping is when the mind desperately holds on to something and refuses to let it go. Aversion is when the mind desperately keeps something away and refuses to let it come. These two qualities are flip sides of each other. Grasping and aversion together account for a huge percentage of the suffering we experience, perhaps 90 percent, maybe even 100 percent.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “The greatest freedom in life is to be aware of the moments that you are free from pain.”

21. “The greatest freedom in life is to be aware of the moments that you are free from pain.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “The most important time is now, because now is the only time which you have some control over. The most important person is the person you’re interacting with. The most important thing to do is to do your best to serve the person you are interacting with.”

22. “The most important time is now, because now is the only time which you have some control over. The most important person is the person you’re interacting with. The most important thing to do is to do your best to serve the person you are interacting with.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “Attention is the basis of all higher cognitive and emotional abilities.”

23. “Attention is the basis of all higher cognitive and emotional abilities.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “Compassion is a mental state endowed with a sense of concern for the suffering of others and aspiration to see that suffering relieved.”

24. “Compassion is a mental state endowed with a sense of concern for the suffering of others and aspiration to see that suffering relieved.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “To feel regretful, you need to be in the past, and to worry, you need to be in the future. Hence, when you are fully in the present, you are temporarily free from regret and worry.”

25. “To feel regretful, you need to be in the past, and to worry, you need to be in the future. Hence, when you are fully in the present, you are temporarily free from regret and worry.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “The keyword is practice. Mindfulness is like exercise – it is not sufficient to just understand the topic; you can only benefit from it with practice.”

26. “The keyword is practice. Mindfulness is like exercise – it is not sufficient to just understand the topic; you can only benefit from it with practice.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “Self-confidence isn’t egotism. When you are truly self-confident, you are flexible with regard to ego; you can pick up ego when necessary, but you can also put it down when necessary in order to learn something completely new through listening. And if you find that you cant put ego down, at least you know that this is so. You can admit it to yourself. It takes profound self confidence to be humble enough to recognize your own limitations without self blame.”

27. “Self-confidence isn’t egotism. When you are truly self-confident, you are flexible with regard to ego; you can pick up ego when necessary, but you can also put it down when necessary in order to learn something completely new through listening. And if you find that you cant put ego down, at least you know that this is so. You can admit it to yourself. It takes profound self confidence to be humble enough to recognize your own limitations without self blame.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan Quote: “In my classes, after explaining some of the theory and brain science behind mindfulness, I offer two ways to experience a taste of mindfulness: the Easy Way and the Easier Way.”

28. “In my classes, after explaining some of the theory and brain science behind mindfulness, I offer two ways to experience a taste of mindfulness: the Easy Way and the Easier Way.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

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