Convince me that love conquers all?

Question

I'm losing all my faith towards love.

Answer 1

I've lost my faith completely. sometimes love is never enough for some people.

One girl I loved had too many personal demons. I knew she felt the same way about me, but what we had ultimately wasn't enough to overcome them. This was two years ago. The pain has faded, but the scars are still there.

Answer 2

Love, unfortunately, is not all you need; I'm afraid our friend John got it wrong.

The artist that came the closest was probably Pat Benatar; love is battlefield. It's something that you have to strive for, to fight for and unfortunately, it takes a lot more than a giddy happiness that stales with time.

I don't know what it was that caused you to question love, but I can tell you with great certainty that love exists and is possible, but for it to work, you have to have a few things:

First, forget the notion that love is all happy all the time; it isn't. Love is commitment and loyalty. It's a gentleman being true to his lady and a lady being faithful to her man. (For those of you of a different persuasion, insert your gender of choice above)

Second, love takes work. Love isn't something that just happens and stays and anyone that says so is diluting themselves. That puppy love when we first meet someone isn't true love. It's just the spark. True Love is the fire and even the smoldering embers that happen after the spark.

Third, there is no Mr/Mrs Right. There is only Mr/Mrs right for me and even then, they won't be perfect. The person you decide to love and spend the rest of your days with will have flaws and characteristics that you won't like. Love is the power to see past them.

Lastly, Love means being both selfish and selfless at times. I think one of the biggest problems running rampant today is the lack of commitment that people have in relationships. It's almost as if they go into them with the expectation that it will end and as soon as things go sour, they bail. Equally, it's not healthy to be a doormat. Relationships are balance. Sometimes the scales will be unbalance, but if they stay there too long, things will go awry.

Again, I don't know what happened to make you question Love, but I truly hope that someday you find someone that will make you say "You know, they're not perfect, but that's okay. I'm going to see this through" and that they'll think the same of you. There's nothing like finding someone that's willing to share in the hardships and that will stay with you when the chips are down and will also be there for the happiest of moments.

Answer 3

You are not losing your faith in love. You are losing your faith in neediness.

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 4

No one can convince you that love conquers all. It conquers when people believe that it can. Unless you believe with all your heart and soul, love cannot conquer all because you are destroying it before it has the chance. It's rough sometimes but you should hold onto your faith in love and all the joys it can bring because if you lose that faith then love won't win.

Answer 5

Pisces, dreamer don't give up! Real love is out there & when you find it you'll know. If it ended then it wasn't meant to be. Real love lives forever, even beyond the grave. Don't lose hope. Most people settle & don't wait for their soulmate. That's why the divorce rate is so high. But once in a while you see an old couple walking hand in hand, still in love after so many years. Once in a while you hear about an old man dying & his wife passing away a week later. Once in a while people find their soulmates & fall in love & stay in love no matter what & I believe that in the afterlife they will still be together...

Answer 6

Heat conquers Cold just the same as Love conquers Hate. Heat is a real thing Cold is something we make up to represent less heat. Love is a real thing Hate is a concept to discribe less love. The universe we live in is full of love just different kinds at different levels. So to say love conquers all is not that far from the truth.

Answer 7

Hey, step onto a tennis court....you beat someone 6-LOVE, 6-LOVE, you have indeed CONQUERED them. So much for levity.....seriously, don't ever give up...do not turn your back, because the moment you do, love may come looking for you, and you won't see it (Murphy's Law?).

Most importantly...hang in there, and ya gotta believe (look where it got the Mets in 1969)...in the end, you will find exactly what you're looking for, and then it will be worth it.

Believe me, I'm hanging in there too, and it seems like the motto of my life is "Every Bump in the Road." But I'm not giving up. Good luck, and good night.

Answer 8

Love for any is the starting point for any desire!
To want anything in this life we need to like the qualities of that thing. or have an affinity towards one particular attribute of that thing. this liking or affinity gradually converts to love for that thing as the craving for it grows. then the intensity increases this is When this desire is manifested into reality as soon as the circumstances become favorable.

Thus It becomes clear that love with greatest intensity is the starting point to conquer all the things in this material world.

humans cannot continue to live in this world without love as without it getting the things that they need to survive will depend not on their individual effort but on the circumstances they will in,

Answer 9

I won't even try, because it doesn't. Not when it comes a man and woman. Sorry to disappoint you

But when it comes to children, most parents would do anything for their children. They would sacrifice out of love. Ever hear of the expression, blood is thicker than water?

Answer 10

..........................I have already lost just about all of my faith toward man kind. The only piece of love i keep is that part i protect for my Son and God. The rest of the world i have found doesn't want my love so i keep what i have and hope that i don't starve to death emotionally.