If you can bear to…
…watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

Rudyard Kipling, If— (1910)

This is another quote that comes via the Daily Stoic newsletter. We all recognise the opening lines of Kipling’s famous verse: “If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,” but I don’t think I’d ever paid attention to these lines from the second verse.

Resilience, grit and small-s stoicism.

The full poem is worth revisiting here. A bit Victorian perhaps, but none the worse for that.

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