31 Quotes by Chade-Meng Tan

If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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