"All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow."
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"I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten."
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"If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be."
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"I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older."
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"You have to embrace getting older."
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"One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens."
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"If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?"
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"Getting older is hard."
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"There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way."
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"I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan."
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"The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it."
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"My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it."
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"Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better"
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"I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural."
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"One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits."
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"It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles."
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