“To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.
Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.
If you want to make
sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one,
not even to an animal.
not even to an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries;
avoid all entanglements;
lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change.
avoid all entanglements;
lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change.
It will not be
broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
-C.S. Lewis
-C.S. Lewis
