“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even 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. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
I ‘love’ this quote. Perfect timing as we are coming up to Valentine’s Day!
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I thought it seemed timely! And it is phrased so beautifully as well.
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I recently read this book. Full of great quotes, but this is one of my favorites!
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C.S. Lewis had such a wonderful perspective on the world, and this text seemed very seasonally appropriate!
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So very true.
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It’s good to have a reminder every once in a while.
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