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.

"The past is not dead ground, and to traverse it is not a sterile exercise."

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time and attention.

Abandon unnecessary desires, and you will find true freedom.