If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

I hope you never need no one,
Hope you treasure your independence.
I hope you never fall in love
With someone like you.

If you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others and you cannot stand to see others loved.

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

If you wish to be free, do not desire anything that depends on another, lest you make them your master.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

Nobody ever loved as he loves, and so, of course, the rest of the world's experience can be no guide in his case.

You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.

Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let him resolutely pursue a solitary course; there is no fellowship with the fool.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

I ain't looking for you to feel like me, see like me, or be like me.

And you cannot build a home for your worth inside of another being.

One should not want to be anything but what one is, because it creates unhappiness.