There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart 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. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.
The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and disruptions of love is Hell.
C.S.Lewis in sy boek The Four Loves
Mini Habit: Kies om jouself kwesbaar the hou vir liefde, selfs al het jy in die verlede seergekry. Wys vandag vir iemand wat sy of haar vriendskap of kameraadskap vir jou beteken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart 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. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.
The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and disruptions of love is Hell.
C.S.Lewis in sy boek The Four Loves
Mini Habit: Kies om jouself kwesbaar the hou vir liefde, selfs al het jy in die verlede seergekry. Wys vandag vir iemand wat sy of haar vriendskap of kameraadskap vir jou beteken.
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