Self-preservation is also good thing. You have to depend on yourself to survive.

" 我保护" 也是好事，你必须靠己生存。但，是好事。

He’d been feeling sorry for himself, wallowing in self-pity.

【wallow】他一直怜，无法拔。

It’s no good feeling sorry for yourself. It’s all your own fault.

【sorry】你怜没有， 是你己的过错。

But this talk about " I suck, " " I can't do this, " and self-pity...

但是像" 我很差劲 我行了”的话。

He was a man who spent much of his life wallowing in self pity or else engaged in an endless campaign of self-promotion.

他一生中大部分时间在怜 或是在无休止地我推销。