This document contains quotes from various authors about love and first love. It discusses how first love deeply touches and enriches our lives through its special emotional and physical connection. While first love may end, the memories linger on and are difficult to forget, as seen through nostalgia triggered by that first look, shy smile, or gentle touch from one's first love. The document questions whether our first love experiences are truly unforgettable, or if it is a choice to remain embroiled in past memories that keeps us revisiting those cherished moments.

1. "First Love"
by
Arise Roby

2. Rosemary Rogers
First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us,
both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives
and enriches them forever.
Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never
end.
Thomas Moore
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young
dream.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the spring a livlier iris changes on the burnished dove;
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of love.

3. Leo Buscaglia
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without
expectation... We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Blaise Pascal
We conceal it from ourselves in vain: we must always love
something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the
feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a
moment without it.
Nietzsche
Love is the state in which man sees things; most widely different
from what they are.
William Shakespeare
As sweet and musical
As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair;
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

4. Lady Murasaki
The memories of long love gather like drifting
snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float
side by side in sleep.
Leo Buscaglia
The heart is the place where we live our passions.
It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully
resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the
heart. It depends upon our honesty for its
survival.
Richard Garnett
Sweet are the words of love, sweeter his thoughts:
Sweetest of all what love nor says nor thinks.

5. Bayard Taylor
The loving are the daring.
Francois Mauriac
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of
our destiny without leaving some mark on it
forever.
Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in
others, and the delight in the recognition.

6. Can you forget your first love?
That first look, that shy smile and that gentle first
touch...do these emotions trigger off nostalgia in you?
While your first love maybe lost in time, somewhere
within your heart, the memories of your first love still
linger on. Whether or not you've moved on in life,
whether you've found love once again, does your first
love still make you emotional. What is it about your
first love that makes it almost impossible for you to get
over the cherished moments? Are our first love
experiences truly 'unforgettable'? Or is merely a choice
to be embroiled in our past that keeps us revisiting our
memories?