The market is efficient enough that most investors will not outperform it.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
The pursuit of happiness is not about feeling good all the time, but about striving toward meaningful goals.