Through this story and other ceremonies, the program challenges individuals to continually strive "onward and upward" and "overcome challenges, continuously evaluate, focus on learning, and always strive to improve".
While recognizing that every culture has its own customs and traditions, at the core we are all individuals -- individuals striving to connect, to communicate, to stay in touch.
If a campaign can bring structure and direction out of peak bodies and other organisations – and even individuals – to want to strive to do better, then we'll come up with effective ideas and solutions-based angles and help our communities on the ground to help themselves.
Translated as The Recitation in English, the Quran charts out the path individuals should take to strive toward eternal peace and escape the spectacles of modern life.
On the other hand, each individual is expected to strive for continual improvement and success, while also taking advantage of their "privileged positions" to grow as individuals.
June is National Men's Health Month and I believe we have an individual and collective duty to strive to improve the health and well-being of the men in our communities.
In many of today's societies that focus on the individual, we are encouraged to strive for success, and often we look for praise as the acknowledgment of that success.
"Fundamentally, the Democratic Party believes in government," Mr. Cuomo said, adding, "The Democrat is arguing that the government as a vehicle for the collective can make a difference, and that we should try to do that – that it's not enough to strive for individual success, and a series of individual successes.
But what Freud did believe was that governments — like individuals — must strive to examine and to acknowledge as clearly and unsentimentally as possible the motivations behind policy.
