To live content with small means
To seek elegance rather than luxury, and
refinement rather than fashion;
To be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich;
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;
To listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart;
To bear all cheerfully, to do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never;
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the uncommon.
This is to be my symphony.
The Little Conch 
Brings to mind a hymn I used to sing in church:
Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there is hatred let me bring your love,
Where there is injury your pardon Lord,
And where there’s doubt true faith in you.
Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope,
Where there is darkness, only light,
And where there’s sadness, ever joy.
O Master grant that I may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love with all my soul.
Make me a channel of your peace,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving to all men that we receive
And in dying that we are born to eternal life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Saint_Francis
random youtube clip (from Princess Diana’s funeral):
Either I or the blog cut off the youtube link.
Trying again:
nope, not working!
Please Google / youtube search:
“Princess Diana’s Funeral Part 18”