The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

生活是世界上最为罕见的事情。大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。

The most dangerous lies are the ones we believe about ourselves.