I have a confession I have a tendency to feel that it is my mission in life to help everyone with all of there problems, and somehow make them go away. It seems that no matter what I do I can't manage to save the world. I have lost many nights of sleep over worrying about other people and the issues that they are going through. I know everyone but me has known about this quote or prayer called The Serenity Prayer. I have printed it out and put it up in my house as a little reminder to myself that I can only control myself and the choices I make. 

God grant me the serenity 

to accept the things I cannot change; 

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time; 

Enjoying one moment at a time; 

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; 

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

as it is, not as I would have it; 

Trusting that He will make all things right

if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life 

and supremely happy with Him

Forever in the next.

Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr