Assertion: solitude's capacity | /r/HasProperty | alone
Facets:
value: with oneself
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The capacity to be alone is one aspect of an inner security which can be built in the early years.
text: The capacity to be alone is one aspect of an inner security which can be built in the early years.
text: The author observes that the capacity to be alone is linked with self-discovery and becoming aware of one’s deepest needs and feelings.
text: But we deprive them of one thing: the capacity to be alone, and content.
text: To ensure we don’t, like many individuals today, fall victim to dependence-driven relationships we must develop what the 20th century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott called “the capacity to be alone”.
text: It is in developing the capacity to be alone that the False Self can be broken down, thought Winnicott, rendering us able to rediscover our True Self, or in other words, our authentic feelings and needs.
text: The capacity to be alone is a valuable resource when changes of mental attitude are required.
text: It was ‘such a great misfortune’, he thought, to lose the capacity to be alone with oneself, to get caught up in the crowd, to surrender one’s singularity to mind-numbing conformity.