reconcile oneself

In contrast, from the very first moment Breivik was utterly alone, and his smallness and wretchedness, which were, in a way, grotesquely inflated by his actions, make it all the more difficult to reconcile oneself to the crime, which the media have termed “the worst attack on Norwegian soil since the Second World War.”

There is something oppressive to the mind in this consciousness of durability, in order to reconcile oneself to it deeper reflections are needed about the necessity that fetters man's life, and the pride of a sense of duty reconciles us to the constraint of the unalterable.

Kudos to Pope John Paul II for showing how to reconcile oneself to death and die with dignity.

"Is it degrading to reconcile oneself with one's enemy?" asked Ali.

One took a long time to reconcile oneself to this idea, even when no hope of real success remained.