“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”
Clive Staples Lewis book The Problem of Pain
The Problem of Pain (1940)
“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”
Clive Staples Lewis book The Problem of Pain
The Problem of Pain (1940)
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Cultivating the Mind of Love (2005) Full Circle Publishing ISBN 81-216-0676-4
David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/virginia-woolf/ traces the origin of such statements to The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan (1932), where the diarist states:<br>We were sitting one morning two Summers ago, Ferenc Molnár, Dr. Rudolf Kommer and I, in the little garden of a coffee-house in the Austrian Tyrol. “Your writing?” we asked him. “How do you regard it?” Languidly he readjusted the inevitable monocle to his eye. “Like a whore,” he blandly ventured. “First, I did it for my own pleasure. Then I did it for the pleasure of my friends. And now — I do it for money.” <br class="br">Misattributed
Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
Lives of Wives (London: Cassell, 1939)