Love Courage and Strength

I highly doubt the veracity of love courage and love strength explained in this love quote.

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. " - Lao Tzu

The strength we gained from being deeply loved by someone else is highly risky because we do not know how strong the love actually is when time and life throw conflicting and painful hurdles at us and when the love endowed by someone suddenly disappears or deteriorates in an unexpected way. Life is the unexpected. And the unexpected becomes the source of all pains in love.

Sometimes, even the one who loves us does not know how deep his/her feelings are because most of time when we feel deeply in love, we might as well only deeply indulge ourselves in our romantic fantasy. In reality, the strength in love only manifests itself when we have a chance to face the biggest challenge together in love.

It will be a fierce race between proud, prejudice, egoism, pessimism, escapism, self-doubt and love. Love nevertheless prevails if it is strong enough. But love is never the source of the strength itself. Instead, we need strength to make love strong.

On the other hand, to love someone deeply does not necessary gives us the right type of love courage. Haven't we seen too many of us fall in love with wrong persons and blindly give love for the rest of life without any rewards at all? It is not courage to pursue love. It may be just a blind biological instinct or the fantasy to daydream love. This blind courage impedes our path toward soul growth where we should find our true love;