Sentence examples for serve oneself from inspiring English sources

[War photography] is a powerful way of finding meaning in one's own life — to try to serve oneself by serving others.

Delbanco stresses that "one of the insights at the core of the college idea" is the notion that "to serve others is to serve oneself by providing a sense of purpose, thereby countering the loneliness and aimlessness by which all people, young and old, can be afflicted".

"Consistent with the idea that small changes might lessen one's tendency to overeat, deliberative thought about what to serve oneself, and using a smaller plate, may reduce overeating in buffets," they write in the April 2013 American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Confusingly, the food was none the less canapes, which one served oneself with toothpicks on to tiny plates.

They had to make choices between serving the greater good – doing what's right for public welfare by increasing the team's payout – or serving oneself, thereby increasing the leader's payout but destroying public welfare.

No doubt many who have given their life for country were also influenced by a faith that has such sacrifice at the core of its story, or by the many faiths, like mine, that instruct that there are sometimes greater purposes to serve than oneself.

Even people elected with the mandate of reducing this inequality, seem powerless, unwilling, possibly limited by the stubborn seduction of first serving oneself or an ideology.

It requires the intention and capacity to serve something beyond oneself.

9 To care for oneself is to help oneself to grow and to change.

But it seems to me that describing pre-marital sex with phrases such as "messing up" or failing to "save oneself" all serve to perpetuate the value placed on virginity.

The transferability or alienability of one's natural right to judge how to defend oneself serves as the foundation of Hobbes' political theory; it allows him to explain the formation of the commonwealth and the legitimacy of the sovereign.