Quote of the day

 "So after you work a lifetime to get yourself all set up and then delude yourself into thinking that you have some kind of ownership claim on your station in life, you're riding for a fall. You're asking for disappointment. To avoid that, stop kidding yourself, just do the best you can on a commonsense basis to make your station in life what you want it to be, but never get hooked on it. Make sure in your heart of hearts, in your inner self, that you treat your station in life with indifference. Not with contempt, only with indifference." - James Stockdale, Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot

I can say from (current) experience this is very good advice as your station in life is something that you can influence, but it is subject to vast other influences that are beyond your control, rendering itself beyond your own control. "What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes."*

*Epictetus, Discourses 1.1.17