You see, without self-mastery, it is difficult to be self-giving.

你看，没有自我的约束要自我付出的话是非常不容易的。

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Don't mistake your need for self-mastery and control for your obvious ability to control others.

不要把你对于自我掌控的需要误当作你明显控制他人的能力。

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Begin at once a program of self-mastery. But start modestly, with the little things that bother you.

立即开始自我掌握的课程，但要谨慎地从困扰你的小事情开始。

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Morgan Freeman brings a sublime dignity and self-mastery to the role of Mandela.

NEWYORKER: Invictus

The twenties, possibly alone among the middle decades of life, are passionately celebrated in fiction and memoirs, and the celebrations tend to share a style that is personal, specific, cliquish, pastiched, breathless, often bibulous, and flagrantly confessional the voice of early mastery without mature constraint, self-discovery at a moment when each revelation seems unique.

NEWYORKER: Semi-Charmed Life