My Mom used to say that in times that were challenging it was helpful to remember that “This too shall pass.”
The Jewish Sages remind us that “A Good life is its own reward.”
The Dalai Lama has said that “We should always be satisfied with our material wealth, and never be satisfied with our spiritual growth, always seeking more.”
If these times seem challenging, perhaps these thoughts might help us to get through them.
As Howard used to say, “If you come to learn, you always come out ahead.”
History teaches us that if the Sun has risen every morning thus far, it will probably rise on a new day tomorrow as well. Let us hope that we will all be there to see it.
Let us strive to make it a better day, and thus create a useful place for ourselves in that future.
If our vision is worthy, surely it will come to pass.
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
(Palindrome attributed to Napoleon)
Napoleon sent 60,000 soldiers to Haiti in the late 1700s and early 1800s to crush the slave rebellion there. The enslaved people that had survived the yellow fever epidemic there were aided by the plague that Napoleon’s soldiers were not immune to, and their rebellion was successful.
This stopped Napoleon from having a foothold in the New World from which to conquer America, and resulted in his selling his holdings there to the United States, (The Louisiana Purchase). Some of these freed people moved on to the United States and built a new life in New Orleans.
