I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you." in the context of "https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/69294.Latifa_Al_Zayyat#:~:text=Latifa%20Al%20Zayyat%20Quotes&text=I%20want%20you%20to%20have,be%20able%20to%20crush%20you.&text=There%20had%20been%20a%20time,with%20a%20touch%20of%20disdain." to mean that wisdom is timeless.