Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

It's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and Alexia might do together once he got her home in a properly wedded state, but now those lusty images were mixing with others: waking up next to her, seeing her across the dining table, discussing science and politics, having her advice on points of pack controversy and BUR difficulties. No doubt she would be useful in verbal frays and social machinations, as long as she was on his side.

It takes at least one to make a marriage.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love from growing - because it is the same energy that has to become love. It is being destroyed in sex. To become love, the same energy has to move to the heart centre.

Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.