We live in uncertain times, but has it not always been so? We were born for these times. Let’s take solace in words from the wise.

“The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged.  It is history that teaches us to hope.”

… and …

“Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you. All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.”
― Robert E. Lee

“One might momentarily fold under the cruel blows of Fate and retreat into a muted solitude. Things like loss and grief demand a certain reclusion and their time. Yet just as the eclipsed sun unfailingly returns, casting its golden rays upon the land, so too must man step out of the darkness renewed, wiser, and stronger. Was man not made to endure, to transcend, and to overcome?“

― The Wandering Spartan