The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love.

[Guest SnappleCap]

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”

[MysticSand]

You quoted this yet left out the original owner. y u do dis.

 

I had to google to find the source. That's like, an extra ten seconds of my life, gone!

Welp. I guess that's fine since my day of internet and blobbing went well enough.

 

To save other's ten seconds of their lives, quote source is: Osho

yay organic hits.

[Guest ~*Lexie Lou*~]

Oh my gosh. I love this. I wish that more people would realize this. How can you expect someone to love you if you don’t love yourself? How can you base your sole happiness on the presence of another? People change, evolve, grow and leave. It is important to have the capability of being alone, if you lose that you lose a part of yourself. Edited February 18, 2019 by ~*Lexie Lou*~

[Guest Revurx]

 

From one of my favorite writers:

 

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”  Hunter S. Thompson

 

 

 

[Guest ~*Lexie Lou*~]

I love that. Thank you for sharing it.

[Guest SnappleCap]

Sorry i wasnt aware i supposed to include a citation page and sources.