avoid all entanglements.

"to love at all is to be vulnerable.

love anything, & your heart will 

certainly be wrung & 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 & 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."

- c.s. lewis