Love & Vulnerability | Quote

This quote complements the
last entry on vulnerability:

"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