Sentence examples for sustaining oneself from inspiring English sources
Modes of sustaining oneself for the long haul.
I know this is not true for everyone, but I feel that cooking is a way of strengthening oneself: not being able to feed oneself to me feels like a state of victimhood; being able to sustain oneself is the skill of the survivor.
"Artists are finding the only way to achieve any financial safety is to become a lapdog of the great corporations," said the author and media critic Douglas Rushkoff, "just like the great painters did in the Renaissance, when it became impossible to sustain oneself as an artist without a patron".
When work placed high physical demands on the body, old age was often synonymous with an inability to sustain oneself.
She has described cooking as "a way of strengthening oneself", in the sense that "being able to sustain oneself is the skill of the survivor".
Capacity to support oneself financially.
Researchers have identified several broadly defined behaviors that influence whether leaders are perceived that way.4 These behaviors include knowing oneself, appreciating one's constituents, affirming shared values, developing new capabilities, serving a purpose, and sustaining hope.
A radiant, hard-earned theme of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is that a sustaining force is alive in the world for each of us, and it's possible to bind oneself to it — to find one's "song," as Wilson puts it — instead of staying chained to suffering.
