“One particularly harmful idea carried by our cultural narrative is that you need to find someone who will love you. Imagine if we believed this about any other basic need: food, water, oxygen. If you needed another person to provide you with those, you’d be considered dependent—if not disabled. Yet we so willingly put ourselves in this state with love.”

“Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.”

“Solitude helps you to discover that you can walk through life all by yourself and that you don’t need to be dependent on anything.”

“Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill.”