Right now, I'm Loving...

Here's something to start your week off right. C.S. Lewis (novelist, poet, Christian apologist and great friends with J.R.R. Tolkien) rocks.

C.S. Lewis is most famous for his Chronicles of Narnia series, but he wrote all sorts of profound stuff. The cartoon above is taken from a quote in his book, The Four Loves. Here's the quote in its entirety: 

“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 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. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”