The following is a quotation from the Vatican documents on Epicureanism:
S. 17. It is not the young man who should be thought happy, but the old man who has lived a good life. For the young man at the height of his powers is unstable and is carried this way and that by fortune, like a headlong stream. But the old man has come to anchor in old age as though in port, and the good things for which before he hardly hoped for, he has brought into safe harbor in his grateful recollections.
This is probably one of the best Thought for the Day’s that you’ve done. Its certainly the most relevant, and a much-needed morale booster for me personally, thank you!