Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken - Oliver Burkeman

Quote

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will 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 an animal. Wrap it carefully round with your 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

Author

Oliver Burkeman

Reference

The Antidote - Happiness for people who cant stand positive thinking - Oliver Burkeman

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