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.
He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Truth hurts not the searching after; the running from!
No one on earth can hurt you unless you accept the hurt in your own mind…. The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.
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.
A woman is the only thing that I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.