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Many people want to find true love. Others believe it will come to them at the right time and at the right place so they wait no matter how long it takes. There are also some people who don’t believe that true love exists so they just go on with their lives without thinking about it. But love is real. You may not see it, feel it, or experience it but there are those who can testify that it exists. People who found true love may still experience challenges and hardships but they are truly happy and content with their lives. Their hearts are filled with joy and they enjoy peace of mind. So what are the secrets behind true love? If you want to find true love, you have to know first the truths about it. Without being aware of what true love really is, you will be blind and may never see it. Here are 12 truths about love that you must know. 1. Love starts from knowing. We feel love when we are familiar or comfortable with anyone or anything. Although we have not seen or met them before, as long as we feel like we have known them for so long, love sparkles within our souls. Think about the first meeting of a mother and her baby. Although they have not actually seen each other before, you can feel the strong love that they have for each other. This is because they know each other even if the baby was still inside the womb of the mother. We have a stronger love for our friends and family because we know them. And if you want to love a special person more, you have to know him or her better and deeper. 2. Love is chosen. We do not have only one destiny in life, but we have a life full of different and unique destinies. Your love life is not also a single destiny. You are not only predestined to succeed but also to fail. Hence, you have to make a choice based on your free will. With every decision we make, we fulfill one unique destiny among many others. Thus, if you really want to succeed in love, choose to walk the path to success and reject the path to failure. Love is not like a cupid who will choose you. You have to choose love and make a decision not to leave or forsake it. 3. You cannot love two opposing things. You cannot love God and money at the same time. You cannot love kindness and rudeness at the same time. You cannot love both love and hatred at the same time. You cannot love both humility and pride at the same time. You cannot love truth and lies at the same time. Loving is serving with all your heart, mind, and soul. Hence, you cannot serve two masters at the same time. If you want to achieve success in love, you have to be consistent. You have to embrace love and its parallel qualities, such as kindness, patience, honesty, and compassion, while rejecting its opposites, such as hatred, rudeness, impatience, dishonesty, and heartlessness. 4. You have to learn to love yourself to love others. Loving yourself doesn’t mean being selfish. To love oneself means to grow oneself by developing great qualities, such as self-control, patience, maturity, wisdom, understanding, inner peace, truthfulness, and love itself. When you can truly love yourself, you can be more capable of loving others. This is because loving requires discipline, patience, and strength to make big sacrifices. You cannot love others if you cannot even love yourself. How can you grow others if you cannot even grow yourself, who is easier to manage than them? 5. Love binds all your good qualities. Love is a powerful force in the Universe. Once it grows in your heart, it will boost your good qualities, such as patience, kindness, honesty, hopefulness, and faithfulness. Love will bind all your virtues and make them work in unity to help you succeed. That is why when you are truly in love, you are transformed from bad to good, and into the great person you are supposed to be. Love is full of goodness. So it’s not real love if there is pridefulness, envy, rudeness, and other bad qualities that do not harmonize with love. 6. Love is a series of continuous actions. Love is not just a choice. It’s not even a mere action. But love is a continuous action. When you love something, you do not just choose it, but you fight for it like your whole life depends on it. Loving someone is not just winning his or her heart once. But it is winning their heart every day. It’s a continuous process, that’s why love is patient. It is greater than hope and faith because the consistent doings of love bring more confidence than just hoping and believing. 7. Love is not just presence, but connection. Love is not just being by someone’s side, but it is being connected. Parents can be with their children yet they don’t give their full attention. Couples dine together yet their hearts and minds do not connect. On the other hand, lovers can be in a long distance relationship, yet their hearts are close and connecting. Their minds are meeting and their souls are uniting in harmony. As you realize, love is indeed not just a presence, but it is a special connection. This connection is pure and concentrated. It is not distracted by technology, jobs, distance, and other material things. That connection enables us to communicate and understand each other’s hearts, minds, and souls so that our love does not fade but grows. 8. Love is true. Lies end but the truth lasts forever. Love is also eternal. Hence, if it is a lie, then it could not be love because a lie will be exposed and perish somewhere in time. Only what is truthful will remain with love eternally. If you are lying, you are not also loving yourself because you are making it dishonest and ruining your trustworthiness. If you cannot love yourself, you cannot also love others. But with truthfulness, you are building up trust and respect, not only for yourself but also for the person or people you love. The truth will also set you free so you can find joy in your soul and share it with others. 9. Love trains you to perfection. Perhaps, nobody is perfect and everybody is a sinner. But with love’s patience, you do not give up. With its humility, you recognize your sins. With its understanding, you forgive yourself. And with love itself, you do your best to correct your mistakes. It’s difficult to be perfect, but with love and faithfulness, we always strive to set our path to perfection. Perfection, anyway, doesn’t mean we don’t make any mistakes, but it means always walking on the road to perfection no matter how many times we stumble making unintentional mistakes. 10. Love is not actually blind. Love may ignore physical appearances, but it clearly sees the hearts, minds, and souls of people. It judges with kindness, justice, and righteousness. Love sees the unseen things that last forever, such as the goodness in someone’s heart and the wisdom in his or her mind. It recognizes the purity and truthfulness of one’s soul and spirit. Therefore, if a person is in love, he or she is not blind. In fact, she has opened her eyes to the truth – to the things that ordinary people do not see, like inner joy and contentment in life. 11. Love is not just romantic but also realistic. Love is not about flowers and fancy restaurants. It’s not about making someone happy for a while. It’s not about making people blush or feel giddy. Instead, love is about embracing what is real and what lasts forever. It’s not about the short-lived smiles and laughs, but it’s about producing patience and having pure joy in the heart despite challenges and hardships. It’s not wrong to be romantic since it adds more color to one’s love life. But make sure that you only treat it as a spice and never forget the main ingredients of love, such as patience, respect, honesty, and kindness. 12. Love is eternal. Love is spiritual. It is an energy that cannot be destroyed. It is there, existing, even before the beginning of time. You cannot create it but only let it enter your heart and let it grow. So, don’t ask or beg for love. Instead, give love first. The love you give will never perish. Your relationship may end, and our mortal lives may end, but the genuine love we give to someone we truly love will continue to exist. It will not go wasted. You may physically lose someone whom you love, but the love you give will always remain in your heart forever. This is why a person who has loved truly and whose heart harbors pure love will inherit eternal life. Because true love is the key to spiritual perfection and immortality. True love is hard to find, not because it is lost, but because people usually do not know it, choose it, do it, and continue it. Therefore, if you want to have real love, spend time to gain knowledge of what it is truly. Have the wisdom to discern so you can make the right decision to choose real love over fake love. And after choosing it, do it, not only once, but try to do it consistently so that you can be confident that the love you have in your life is genuine, fruit-bearing, and never-ending.