"In the end, we are all just trying to find our place in the world, to make sense of the chaos around us."

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 capable of love, of sharing, of going 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.

【译文】 孔子说：“生来就知道的，是上等人；学习后才知道的，是二等人；遇到困难才学习的，是三等人；遇到困难也不学习的，这就是下等人了。”