The five friends are trying to make the most of their lives against odds so challenging that their honest striving is a guarantee of nothing.
Striving is not synonymous with paid work in my dictionary.
My one conscious striving is to write well.
As a great-great-grandson of Tolstoy told the Times, "The Chechen people think that Tolstoy wrote most truthfully of the events that happened then and the character of the mountain peoples, their striving to be independent, for freedom, and their religious, ethnic and other particularities…Tolstoy, in spite of the fact that he was an aristocrat, a Russian count, was very democratic and open.
"The Chechen people think that Tolstoy wrote most truthfully of the events that happened then and the character of the mountain peoples, their striving to be independent, for freedom, and their religious, ethnic and other particularities," Mr. Tolstoy said.
"The Chechen people think that Tolstoy wrote most truthfully of the events that happened then and the character of the mountain peoples, their striving to be independent, for freedom, and their religious, ethnic and other particularities," said Mr. Tolstoy.
When, on the other hand, people's responsivity to natural rewards is low or their pattern of goal-striving is maladaptive, they are more likely to drink alcohol or use other substances (Cox & Klinger, 2011a; Kalivas & Volkow, 2005; Murphy, Correia, Colby, & Vuchinich, 2005) and to experience alcohol-related problems (Cox et al., 2002; Hosier & Cox, 2011).
His fragility and striving were Ronnie's.
When a patient feels confident that the health care worker really cares about them and their family and is striving to understand and respond holistically to their circumstances, the therapeutic relationship can be transformed to one which focuses on healing, not just treatment, and in which the service provider meets the needs of the patient.
