"To love at all is to be vulnerable. 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. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid
all entaglements; lock it up safe in the caske
t
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. The alternative to
tradgedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only
place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from the
perturbations of love is Hell."
-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
(I love that book. It's more marked up than any other book I own. Read it.)
"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
And...
here's a random one that I love that I have been thinking a lot about lately:
"Don't give up trying to find your way, but remember that sometimes it takes bending to avoid breaking"
-Katrinka Hesselinx
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