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> [Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/acceptance-of-death-when-it-arrives-is-one-thing-but-to-allow-it-to/)

[Ronald Blythe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-blythe/)

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> [The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/the-acceptance-of-death-gives-you-more-of-a-stake-in-life-in-living/)

[Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/)

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> [“Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. Although”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miyamoto-musashi/generally-speaking-the-way-of-the-warrior-is-resolute-acceptance-of-2/)

[Miyamoto Musashi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miyamoto-musashi/)

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> [It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-lesser/it-is-the-acceptance-of-death-that-has-finally-allowed-me-to-choose/)

[Elizabeth Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-lesser/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/elizabeth-lesser-1683_acceptance_it-is-the-acceptance-of-death-that-has-f_2585714.png)

> [Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miyamoto-musashi/generally-speaking-the-way-of-the-warrior-is-resolute-acceptance-of/)

[Miyamoto Musashi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miyamoto-musashi/)

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> [An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/an-absolute-condition-of-all-successful-living-whether-for-an/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

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> [It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/it-has-become-in-my-view-a-bit-too-trendy-to-regard-the-acceptance-of/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherwin-b-nuland/the-dignity-to-be-sought-in-death-is-the-appreciation-by-others-of/)

[Sherwin B. Nuland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherwin-b-nuland/)

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> [“One day, almost two years after Keith died, I was on my way down our long driveway toward the mailbox when, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guideposts/one-day-almost-two-years-after-keith-died-i-was-on-my-way-down-our/)

[Guideposts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guideposts/)

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