"... acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.  When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment...I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes. 

...acceptance has taught me that there is a bit of good in the worst of us and a bit of bad in the best of us..." 

     -- from a friend, for a friend.