I keep getting told to update.  I think this is one of the best quotes I have ever heard:

“My grandfather was a painter.  He, um, died at age 88.  He illustrated
Robert Frost’s first three books of poetry.  And he was lookin’ at me
and he said, ‘Harry.  There’s two kinds of tired.  There’s good tired.
And there’s bad tired.’  He said, ‘Ironically enough, bad tired can be
a day that you won.  But you won other people’s battles, you lived
other people’s days, other people’s agendas, other people’s dreams.
And when it was all over, there was very little you in there.  And when
you hit the hay at night, somehow you toss and turn, you don’t settle
easy.’  He said, ‘Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you
lost.  But you don’t even have to tell yourself, because you knew you
fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days.  And
when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy.  You sleep the sleep of
the just and you can say, take me away.’  He said, ‘Harry, all my life,
I’ve wanted to be a painter.  And I painted.  God I would have loved to
have been more successful.  But I painted and I painted and I am good
tired.  And they can take me away.’  Now if there’s a process in your
and my lives, in the insecurity that we have about a prior life or an
afterlife.  God, I hope there is a god, if he is — if he does exist,
he’s got a rather weird sense of humor however.  But let’s just — but
if there’s a process that will allow us to live our days, that will
allow us that degree of equanimity towards the end, looking at that
black implacable wall of death, to allow us that degree of peace, that
degree of non-fear, I want in.”

– Harry Chapin, December 22, 1980