The ability to be alone is the prerequisite for the ability to love

 

  …Actually, being able to concentrate means that you can be alone. Being able to be alone is one of the prerequisites for being able to love people. If you hold on to someone because you can not stand on your own feet, that person may be a life saver, but the relationship between the two is not a love relationship. It is paradoxical, but the ability to be alone is the prerequisite for the ability to love…