The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is 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 the other 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.
~ Osho
You see the people who can live alone truly know their inner-self and thus the complete self of them. They don't need others to satiate their needs. A person who knows him/herself fully is in fact capable of almost anything. We can learn a lot from ourselves and that can be used to do anything.
Source: Lessons Learned In Life
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