永远别再自怜自贱

Why do I always try to cover my small accomplishments under blankets of words that make light of my work or excuses for my lack of ability? Worst of all, I have come to believe my excuses so that I willingly sell my days for pennies while consoling myself with thoughts that things could always be worse.

为什么我总在试图用言语来掩盖自己的渺小，总在试图为自己减轻负担，又总在为自己的低能寻找托辞?糟糕的是，我似乎已经相信了自己编造的借口，心安理得，得过且过，安慰自己“比上不足，比下有余”。

It is time to study the reflection in my looking glass until I recognize that the most harmful enemy I have is myself. At last, in this magic moment, the veil of self-deceit is beginning to lift from my eyes. I am not a fool. Henceforth I will stand on my own feet and my terrible crutches of self-pity and self-contempt have been cast aside forever.

当我终于开始自我反省时，我意识到最可怕的敌人正是我自己。在那神奇的瞬间，自欺欺人的面纱从我眼前飘逝。我不是蠢人，从此我要靠自己的双脚前行，永远抛弃那自怜自贱的拐杖。

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

我永远不再自怜自贱。

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

我终于明白，耐心与时间甚至比力量与激情更为重要。年复一年的挫折将迎来收获的季节。所有已经完成的或将要进行的，都少不了那孜孜不倦、锲而不舍、坚忍不拔的拼搏过程。这种过程是一点一滴的积累，步步为营的拓展，循序渐进的成功。

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

我永远不再自怜自贱。

No longer will I look mournfully to the past. It will never return. Instead, with these success principles and vows, I will shape the present because it is mine and I will go forth to meet the mysterious future without fear, without doubt, with out de- spair. There is nothing I cannot achieve if I try.

我不再悲伤地追忆过去，过去的不会再来，在这些成功法则和誓言的启示下，我把握现在，努力向前，去邂逅神奇的未来，没有恐惧，没有疑虑，没有失望。对我而言，有志者事竟成。

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

我永远不再自怜自贱。