Sentence examples similar to devote oneself to something from inspiring English sources

According to Webster to be addicted is: to devote or surrender (oneself) to something habitually or obsessively addicted to something.

Lorr ably navigates the narcissism masked as self-­interrogation, the eating disorders, platitudes, self-righteousness and general weirdness of devoting oneself so completely to something that can cause as much pain as pleasure.

We should devote ourselves to something that doesn't benefit us more than it absolutely has to?

It's hard to militate on behalf of workers who, according to the market-driven logic of the present, chose to do something they love and to devote themselves to something as ephemeral as teaching.

It's a film about what it means to devote yourself to something other than your fears and desires, to shed that hard, durable shell called selfishness.

"You devote yourself to something for such a long time – six months of your life completely consumed by it," she says.

I rationalized my actions by telling myself that weekends were far too crammed with child care and other activities for me to devote myself to something that was nearly impossible to complete anyway.

I ignored him through oppositional behavior, later reasoning that only an idiot sets out to find the poorhouse, not to mention devote himself to something he doesn't love.

It's given me down time where I could really devote myself to something.

For human beings like Odysseus, who are held fast by care, have an irrepressible need to devote themselves to something.

His advice for living a happy (and successful) life was not to chase after success, but instead to devote yourself to something greater than yourself, and let success follow as an inevitable byproduct of that devotion.