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.

所谓仁人，只要能做到自己想成功时先帮别人成功，自己想得到时先帮别人得到，就可以了。推己及人，可算实行仁的方法。