Love, hope and light be with you

I think hope will take you farther for less but love will get you there in better shape. Hope is a flimsy thing that asks nothing of you but faith. Downside is, hope is not obligated to give you anything at all. You can hope for something til the day you die and if it isn’t possible, the world won’t care. It’s your loss and your waste of emotion and effort. Love has the ability to transform into something rock solid if you treat it right. Like a diamond under pressure, if love survives, it will be formidable in the face of despair, tragedy and suffering.

Love demands a lot but the return can be great and rather than being obligated, love can provide you with enough to cast aside the need for faith or hope. You can feel love when someone sticks by you when it really isn’t in their best interest. You can feel love when someone puts up with your bullshit for the nth time. You can feel love when you can let your guard down and actually enjoy having your soul touch another because the bond between those people protects them both from the unflinching apathy that surrounds our reality.

Hope is cheap like bottom shelf liquor but love is expensive like a fine wine. One gets you through low moment to low moment, the other is made and sustained by and for the good times that make life worth living. Love. Love is the ultimate core of life. Love first, later on hope comes. Love is the basic component deep embedded in nature. Love is present between electron and nucleus, Sun and earth, cells and organs. we can also see it in symbiotic relationships between plants and organisms. . But without love, lichen dies, wars happen, earth goes beyond from its orbit. Hoping itself is an yes or no task. Wars can sometimes happen even if we hope not to. But love between countries can put it to an end. 

But both can lead you your goal whatever it may be. Love is a union. Hope is trust in one own abilities and universal forces. Hope is basically oriented to future a thing or event you want to have or see in future. Love is instantaneous in nature .Both make us strong. Both create discipline. Love is joy and playfulness. Hope is a holy austerity. Hope is the anchor of life. I’m not alive today because I feel loved or have someone to share love with. I’m alone. 

And I very much miss being able to communicate with people. But I’m only alive today because I have never completely lost hope. Nobody will ever convince me that love is as crucial as hope. I’ve experienced the absence of love for many years and have learned to live with it. But in those darkest moments when I venture close to despair, my life is at stake. The absence of love is painful, but the absence of hope is deadly. It terrifies me. Love will leave you, but you can always have hope. You can hope love will come again, that you'll get an A on that test, or that the hard times will be over soon.

Love doesn't have the same effect. You question whether or not its really there and that you really feel it. It does make you treat people better, but in the long term it will always be hope. Even when everything is stripped from you, you can always have hope. The biggest thing that weakens our will power is the need for instant gratification. Live life — Kill your need for instant gratification by making your life fun and happy. Don’t wait for your goals to fulfill you. Change your work — if you can change your career or make your work easier, do it. Don’t waste your effort.

Quit perfectionism — let go of the need to make things perfect or getting a certain outcome, go mess up. Dream big — don’t settle, have ambitions that actually makes you want to work. Nothing is out of your reach! We are creatures of habits — do things at the same time so eventually you won’t need to use will power. Exercise will power — sit and focus for a certain amount of time, do something scary, challenge yourself. Your willpower is at its zenith when you wake up — schedule accordingly. Nobody is perfect — we all have days when we feel like not doing things and even if you miss, learn to forgive yourself. 

It really depends on what do you understand as love. Do you mean 'romantic love' that mostly get confused with lust and infatuation? Well, then I would definitely say that hope is much much more powerful than lust,… Whoops, I meant this type of love. Similar when you talk about love in the meaning of having someone in your life who… you hope, will support you and help you in the time of needs, someone who will be your companion, someone who will be there for you (rather selfish approach). Yes, also in this case hope is more powerful than this type of love. 

You see, even if you find someone who will truly love you the fact is that… We all are mortal. Even if the person wants to be all the time with you, even if they don't want to leave you, it's not said that death won't take them away from you. And if they are gone then… In the best case, all you are left with is only… Hope… Hope, that you will be able to survive on your own. Nonetheless, if you understand love as… wanting to give without expecting anything in return, as wanting to be there for others and support them, then… That's very different story.

I am not a religious person, but I like reading some religious books - for me they are the best psychological books ever written. In the Bible there is a verse: "And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love." And I believe that this is very true, not because the Bible says so, but because it is what I observed in life. I am a daughter of two soulmates who truly and deeply love each other. My dad has always put the wishes and desires of my mum well above his own, and all he wanted was to make her happy. Similar my mum in respect to my dad, she always wanted to make him happy. 

They both deeply trust each other and they have faith in each other, and these gave them strength and…hope. They had very hard life, they didn't have much, and when my dad tried to help our family to improve our financial situation and he bought a company, the company went broke and my parents were left with an enormous debt. And there were many other very difficult situations in my parents life, but they managed to go through everything together, and they have always said that the love that connects them gave them strength and hope. And even if something happened to one of them, the other would still be able to go through life with the love in their heart, be content and do their best, for they wouldn't want to 'disappoint' the other person, they knew that all their partner wanted was them to be happy. And of course they had us, my sister and myself, this was also love that kept them going.

And I met many people in my life (I traveled quite a bit and lived in 3 different countries, which gave me more opportunities to meet diverse people). I noticed that those who were able to truly love had much more happy and fulfilled life, than those who were missing love in their lives. I met poor people, who had no material wealth, but they had love and you could see that they were happy and content with their lives. It felt so peaceful when you were in their company. And I met rich people, who had much more wealth than needed to have a comfortable life, but they didn't have love and… they never had enough of wealth, they always wanted more and more, they have never been satisfied. 

To love and to be loved is the most powerful feeling a human being can experience. It's the feeling of being wanted and needed that give the purpose to our life, and this gives us strength, and that gives us hope. Therefore love is much more powerful than hope. But you have to understand the true meaning of love, to comprehend this. True love has nothing to do with just lust and sexual attraction, or wanting to have someone to satisfy our senses.Cheers!