"Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi"

I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion, pain to comfort,
scarcity to abundance, expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in
unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
- Hippocrates (known as the "Father of Medicine")

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound, and that is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

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"Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi"

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912