by plainslady on February 4th, 2012, 1:55 pm
“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.â€
C.S. Lewis
I love this quote and it reminds me of my recent battle with anxiety. Anxiety stole my ability to love because I was so wrapped up in my own paranoid, self centered world I locked my emotions away and they began harden my heart.
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one”