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Denial, despair and grieving are all part of the many emotions we process towards acceptance.

The final stage of grief is acceptance. However, this stage is not as easy as it sounds. The last phase of Kubler-Ross' theory on grief may not be a permanent condition.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.-Aristotle

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.: Duke Ellington (1899-1974) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace. -Epicetus

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in exemption from, suffering.-Francois de Fenelon_The Book of Positive Quotations_

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of nature, are calls to labour and diligence. When we feel any pressure of distress, we are not to conclude that we can only obey the will of Heaven by languishing under it, any more than when we perceive the pain of thirst, we are to imagine that water is prohibited.-- Samuel Johnson: Rambler #32

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.-James Russell Lowell

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.- Orison S. Marden

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence ...not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.--Suzanne Massie _Journey_

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change! -J.C.F. von Schiller

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. -Kathleen Casey Theisen

It's better to step on toes than walk on eggs. -- Bruce Thompson

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.-Paul Tournier The Meaning of Persons Harper 57 Simpson's Contemporary Quotations 1988.

Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way. -- Lee Venden

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference Elie Wiesel