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.

最微小的善行也比最宏大的意图更有价值。

自信不是"他们会喜欢我"，而是"如果他们不喜欢我，我也没关系"。

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

"The most dangerous stories are the ones we tell ourselves."

可以说，消化道是生命物质最初和最古老的实验室。