To love at all is to be vulnerable by C.S. Lewis/Inspiring love quote

Richard Johnson painting

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 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.

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