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.

You don't have to be alone.

我们学会了爱自己，现在我敦促你“为自己发声”。

我们都在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。