As The Weekly celebrates its 21st Anniversary this October, we turned to a group of inspiring women — both in Singapore and beyond — and asked them to spill their secrets on how to live life to the fullest. Here, they share their best quotes with us that come an an opportune time as we commemorate World Mental Health Day as well:
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“From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22… but I didn’t enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else’s.”
“Birthdays seem to have a bad reputation as you get older. I believe time is just a compression of experiences – ups, downs, and everything in between. So a year older is just another year of experiences to learn from, draw strength from, and, hopefully, treasure in the heart.”
“Women think that they failed somehow by not staying 25. This is crazy to me because my belief is that it’s a privilege to get older – not everybody gets to get older.”
“There’s no use sulking if life doesn’t work out the way you want. There’s always a way out if you want to make it happen.”
“Happiness is the real reward for solving problems, even the most mundane of them. As I get older I don’t need to go searching for happiness. I just get myself organised, waste less time on negative thoughts, and give myself a break.”
“I don’t think of getting older as looking better or worse. You change, and that’s okay. Life is about change.”
“I’ve learnt to let things go. The day I started doing that was the day I felt powerful and unstoppable; only then did life really begin for me.”
“I couple my increasing age with my ever-growing zest for life. I am exactly who and where I want to be and the amazing gifts that life has to offer is still being graciously bestowed upon me.”
“The journey of life is long, winding and very interesting. Be prepared to play full out, even when success is not apparent.”
“Life is a learning experience, so even if you fall, just pick yourself up and try again. At the end of the day, you might gain more than you have given.”
“If you stay in your comfort zone, you can never grow.”
“Wear those laugh lines with pride. They are proof you’ve loved and lived.”
“Women are realising that we’re at our best as we get older. We are attractive, and we are more interesting, and we are more self-assured than we were 10 years before.”
“Regret is a very negative emotion that anchors you in the past unnecessarily. I only look back for learning opportunities.”
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
“No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.”
“Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They’re a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart.”
“The older I get, the more I realise how young I am and how little I know.”
“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
“I believe getting older is a gift. If you move through life with respect and grace, your beauty will never fade.”
“I’ve always lived by a quote I first heard on The Blindside starring Sandra Bullock: It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us, our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”