The two main manifestations of love are as a hunger for the presence of a person or thing and as a willingness to exert oneself to help someone.
Modesty consists in an awareness of the perspective of others and a readiness to curtail one's own unseemly behavior; love of humanity is a willingness to exert oneself on others' behalf.
There is no harm in exerting oneself.
From carrying heavy items to exerting oneself playing a game, people who are not used to exercising and have risk factors for heart disease, are at an increased risk.
The proportion of variation due to disease/treatment heterogeneity was high and significant for the scales that measured ability to exert oneself, anginal frequency and perception of disease (ECS, AFS and DPS, I2 all equal to 87%), but was lower for angina severity (ASS) (Table 3).
When I hear the term "hard-working", I feel the urge to make the case for laziness, or for exerting oneself no more than moderately.
The process, whereby rational efforts are made by the jurist to arrive at an appropriate ruling, when applied is called ijtihad (literally meaning "exerting oneself").
This is in large part because it is necessarily implied in willing motion of a certain sort that one exert dominion that one takes oneself to have (E2-5 II.xxi.15: 241), thet "the mind [endeavor] to give rise…to [the motion], which it takes to be in its power" (E2-5 II.xxi.30: 250).
With this risk one also exposes oneself to luck.
How does one explain oneself to the neighbors, after all?
To sell a service, a product, to differentiate oneself from, and yet compare oneself to, the competition.
