“The election is not up to us. A pandemic is not up to us. A collapse in public trust, public kindness, public responsibility—these things are not up to us, not as individuals, that is (of course, we all share the blame collectively). As individuals what is up to us is whether these bad times make us a bad person, whether hard events harden our hearts, whether the wrongs of the world make us do wrong.”

Ryan Holiday in the Daily Stoic newsletter.