First Step Love Quotes

#1. Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.

Rajneesh

#2. Trust is the first step to love.

Munshi Premchand

#3. I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.

Josh Groban

#4. One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as long as you're pursuing some intuition or instinct. Of course, then, intuitions or instincts don't make for great novels, but they often make for good first drafts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.

Tadahiko Nagao

#6. The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.

T. B. Joshua

#7. The truth is, you are your own "special someone," and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

Deborah King

#8. Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#9. It's right to say that people fall in love. We don't glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether we'll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything.

Martin Pistorius

#10. The first step to going somewhere is to begin.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Charles Simmons

#12. The eyes are the harbingers of love, and the first step of love is sight.

Robert Burton

#13. The first step toward success is a deep driving desire.

Debasish Mridha

#14. disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet.

Nikki Rowe

#15. Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

Elif Shafak

#16. This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Rumi

#17. The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#18. Recognizing that God exists in all of us is the first step toward genuine kindness.

Charles F. Glassman

#19. Don't be afraid to take the first step and speak from your heart.

Nash

#20. When you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, how can you expect anyone to see you unlike you see yourself. Make you someone you like, and you will learn to love yourself. That is the first step in the quest for Love and acceptance.

Daniel R. Gadberry

#21. Be there is the first step, and recognizing the presence of the other is the second step. To love is to recognize; to be loved is to be recognized by the other.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#22. The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.

Sharon Salzberg

#23. At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding.

Abhijit Naskar

#24. [Christians] are commanded to love our neighbors, and the first step in doing this is to show a watching world that Christ reigns within us.

Billy Graham

#25. We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

Mother Teresa

#26. A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

Rajneesh

#27. Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.

Ben Roethlisberger

#28. I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist.

It's possible that he is already aware, if only in a 'don't step on the small girl' kind of way.

Laini Taylor

#29. In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

Ravi Zacharias

#30. The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

Leslie Ludy

#31. He made a careful rehearsal of some of their bits of talk
why had she said this? what had she meant by that? why had she done the other? He dwelt on these matters with an absorbed speculation, and with a young man of Ogden's temperament speculation was but the first step on the way to love.

Henry Blake Fuller

#32. Love won't come through unless the heart is open. To work with an open heart is to love or care for something or someone more than you do for yourself. This is the first step to the divine love that we all are looking for.

Harold Klemp

#33. The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [ ... ] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

Laura Miller

#34. Dancing is the first step to falling in love, after all.

Anne Leonard

#35. Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.

Jim George

#36. Take control from the moment you step in her place. She'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed.

Auliq Ice

#37. The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Adrienne Von Speyr

#38. My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make

Lionel Richie

#39. We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

Francois Fenelon

#40. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.

Shellie Palmer

#41. I'm going to make love to you, Lanie. I'm not your first, but I will be the last.

Flora Roberts

#42. Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.

Johnny Depp

#43. The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

Gary Zukav

#44. They say learning to love yourself
Is the first step
That you take when you want to be real.

Tiesto

#45. When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Yoko Ono

#46. [If] we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much.

Bertrand Russell

#47. A cute nickname was the first mile marker on Gag Highway, heading straight to Relationshipville. And making up the names of fake roads and cities to express your unhappiness was probably the first step to insanity.

Emma Mills

#48. Surrender is just like love. That's why I say only lovers can become sannyasins - because they know a little of how to surrender. Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.

Rajneesh

#49. Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

Bell Hooks

#50. Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step ... is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

Gary Snyder

#51. The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.

Barbara Sher

#52. Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Amit Ray

#53. To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.

Joan Juliet Buck

#54. Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

C.S. Lewis