“You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.”

““Love the others and you will be loved!” is a saying that might sound as a terrible and unjust accusation against all the innocents that have been hated and perhaps even tortured and killed.”

Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet

“To love others you must first love yourself.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“My dear Aysel. First I want you to strongly believe and to be sure that I love you with all my heart. You should not doubt this. I love you and I will always love you into eternity; My life, My love, My dear.”

Ziad Jarrah (1975–2001) September 11th hijacker

“Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
           
-I did nothing for you.”
           
-You loved me and your love made me--human.”

Isaac Asimov book Forward the Foundation

“And I wanna kiss you, make you feel alright
I'm just so tired to share my nights
I wanna cry and I wanna love
But all my tears have been used up
On another love, another love
All my tears have been used up”

Tom Odell (1990) British singer-songwriter

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.”

John Fante book Ask the Dust

“Endymion, you are my first love, my only love… even if we're reborn, in another life, we'll find each other… and then… We'll fall in love again… - Princess Serenity”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

“In everyone there sleeps
A sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps,
As all they might have done had they been loved.
That nothing cures.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian