"bear oneself" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to behave or conduct oneself in a particular way. Example: He was taught to always bear himself with dignity and grace, no matter the circumstances.
Who could bear those unbearable others; worse, who could bear oneself?
He watches satirically the transparent theatrical strategies of the "counsellors" — Gestalt therapy with a Teddy bear (oneself as a child), finding a "safe place" in the room when the group therapy becomes acrimonious, visualizing one's childhood home, enumerating and regrieving past griefs, and listening to therapeutic mantras ("You are a brave and special person").
To be a bore oneself is the ultimate failing and makes one the target for a quintessentially English put-down.
He has publicly borne the cross of soiling oneself so that we, the people, may always be able to deflect away from our own loose sphincters.
She refers to "the monks' considered but suicidal decision," to their "collective decision in favor of a considered yet senseless death and a vain sacrifice," and adds, "The martyrdom of these monks martyrdom consisting, in principle, of letting oneself be killed to bear witness to faith is all the more striking inasmuch as the film is not mystical".
Much of the text consists in practical advice, maxims and anecdotes that one may bear in mind when one finds oneself affected by sorrow.
And there is always the possibility of a squabble with an arrogant door guy, or the need for a hand in extricating oneself from an ear-chewing bore at a party.
So, in 'Bennie-land' there is only one way to think about issues that bear on the minority community, one way to express oneself, one way to live out one's blackness on the public stage.
Even when the attacks became personal and tinged with anti-Semitism, Benjamin never complained, and once stated that it was "wrong and useless to disturb oneself and thus weaken one's energy to bear what was foreordained".
For instance, conceiving of oneself as a citizen, one may desire to bear one's fair share of society's burdens.
And yet it is different from Justice because it springs from the natural friendship that all human beings bear to one another, and requires that one take upon oneself the sufferings of other human beings.
