If Life on Life's Terms is difficult to accept, how about trying Life on God's Terms.
Life on Life's terms, in my mind, means that I have to accept that jerk down the hall, or put up with the insensitive neighbor (or spouse), or realize that sometimes things in my life don't go the way I would prefer. I just sort of have to accept that I'm stuck with some things I don't like.
Life on Life's Terms means I have to accept when things don't go my way. Life on God's Terms means I don't have a way.
God has a way, and I'm out of the management business. I get to envision how that life looks when I'm in God's will. What would God have me be? How do I treat that jerk?