Name: Muhamad Zul Aiman B Zulkiflee
Name: Muhamad Zul Aiman B Zulkiflee
Name: Muhamad Zul Aiman B Zulkiflee
MATRIC NO : 187089
This is one from many famous quotes from Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu, a philosopher of the sixth
century B. C. Due to the loss of many important records, information about Lao Tzu the man has
been very sketchy. Legend says that he is a gifted scholar, worked as the Custodian of the
Imperial Archives during the reign Chou Dynasty (Wikipedia Foundation, 2016).
The reason why I choose this quote is, first because this quote literally reflects myself,
which now is having a relationship of my own. And yes indeed, I, personally agree about the
meaning of the quote. Through love, you have strength and through love too, you have courage.
When we talk about love, the first important thing we need to understand is, what is love
actually? A feeling? Or just another new girl to fulfill your weekend’s lust? Or the smile a
stranger among the crowd gave to you? Love never has its own definition. Because 8 billion
people on Earth see it in their very own perspective. Some may say love is when you finally
married your girlfriend, some may say love is when you help that old lady cross the road and get
a free hug from her, and it varies. And we cannot say not to others on how they define love. The
love itself have a big influence and covers a wide area in our own, everyday life. Love is
everywhere, as if it unites with the nature, and exist in our every breath though we may do not
see but we still we can feel the presence of the love and thus we show it to people around us.
And with all these various definitions and explanations, we go back to our quote from the
legendary Lao Tzu. And instead playing around on the surface, we have to go deeper to the core,
by means to truly understand this quote, along with its true meaning of love that Lao Tzu has
discovered and he carved it in this quote. May through this understanding, we can understand
more about love and hence, apply it in our everyday life with the ones we loved the most.
Lao Tzu said in this quote that love will give us strength and courage, but the issue that I
try to bring up here is do love really give us strength and courage? And to how far these power of
love will bring us? Are we will willingly sacrifice everything in the name of love? And in what
context, or what kind of love that give us these strength and courage? Is it love that gives us
strength and courage to strive through all sorts of hardship and troubles in our life? No matter
how comfort our life is, with branded cloths, big cars, beautiful bungalows, or how bad our life
is, wearing the same clothes for a year and half, no home, barely eats chicken, the only thing that
gives us that particular strength and courage to not to give up and keep fighting in our life is the
love itself.
It is undeniable that we have come to an era of technology and modern life where time is
too valuable until there is no one left to appreciate it. Work, money, reputation, those are few
examples of things that we try too hard to achieve and conquer. “It is in the nature of human
feelings that everyone likes to be in high positions and dislikes low positions; everyone likes
gain and dislikes loss; everyone likes advantage and dislikes affliction; everyone likes honor and
dislikes lowliness” (Cleary, 1991). Some may fail but from many that succeed, are they truly
gain success? They reached the summit just to see that their heart are empty with no love at all.
We need love in our life. In fact, we are born from it. From the moment we were
implanted by both our father’s sperms and mother’s eggs at our mom’s uterus wall, the love is
already exist. And it continues to grow and grow, along with our development. From an infant, a
toddler, an adolescence to young adult, adult and at the very last breath of our life, we still
receive all sorts of love from our surroundings. Love dwell in every stages of our life, give an
said to be exist and become the source of our strength in overcome challenges and obstacles in
life, do love work the same way in studies? Do love too gives us strength and courage in studies?
Where that love came from? And in what way it helps us?
I personally agree with the central claim that I said above. Not being biased, but along
with my agreement, I list out a few reasons upon stressing that love do help us in our studies,
giving us strength and will to drink as much as we want to quench our thirst towards knowledge,
providing us courage to fight and never give up no matter how hard the challenges would be.
My first point is the very first love that will help us is the love from our own parents.
Why I choose this kind of love? And in what terms it has to do with learning? First of all, parents
are the ones who make it possible for us to exist in this tiny world. They sacrifice almost
everything ever since we are a baby. From energy, time, money, and much more. Bond between
parents and their child, is a special one. The love produced is unbelievably strong and no
boundaries stand between it. Not to mention that our acceptance towards that love varies from
time to time. From just crawling to the state we are able to run happily around, our parents’ love
never replenished. The relationship that relates parental love towards our learning spirit starts, of
course, when we enter the school. But I have to say that many of us, the children, will only
noticed this parental love when they have reached the adolescence or young adult stage, as these
two are critical stages where all the hormones and common senses start to play their roll.
Starting from here, then only we can use Lao Tzu’s quote and altogether with parental
love that I said above, we can see how parental love will give their kids both strength and
courage in their learning process. And we also get to see between parents and children, who will
play much more important role in ensuring this love keeps growing and long-lasting.
The very basis of a happy family is to be able to understand each of the family members
needs and desire, as to also be able tolerate with each other’s attitude in every situation. Parents
play an important part during the early stages of their children. By being a good role model to
their kids, this will enable the love to be delivered in a harmonious and warm atmosphere.
As the parents succeed in disciplining the children from the early stages, it will be much
easier for their children when it involves learning process. Normally, most of the students who
achieve success in school are due to high discipline and good attitude that enables them to focus
in class and perform high level thinking skills. When parents consistently giving their parental
love, this is the kind of love that will the student strength and courage. He or she is deeply love
by his or her parents and from there come the strength, while loving their parents deeply, they
produce courage in themselves. It is interesting and also important to understand how powerful
this love can be, and if not being channel through the right way, it might turns out to be
There is no love stronger than our parents love, and through it we gain strength. Our
parents did their very best in loving us, giving everything they have to fulfill our needs. They are
our strength. Whenever we failed in our studies, they support us from behind, comforting us and
giving us the strength that we need. And upon seeing our parents’ non-stop effort and struggles
in ensuring us not to give up, we gain courage. We want to prove to them we can make it, we
want to repay them for all those invaluable sacrifices, we want to make them happy. Isn’t it
beautiful? Through love we gain both strength and courage, two essential values that we need
along our journey in learning and studying towards success. And with these two values also, we
will eventually develop lots of good values inside ourselves and hence become a nobler person.
My second point on showing that love can help us in studies is through the education
itself. Yes. The idea here is to love education and also getting that love back from the education.
How is it possible to get the love back from the education? Before I explain more about the
above statement, lets see what is education at the first place? Books? Your examination slips
with multiples grade on it? Or just another day you wasted by sleeping at class?
values and habits. Educational methods including discussions, teaching, trainig and organized
research. Education ususally takes place under the management of educators but learners may
educate themselves. Education also can run either in formal or informal class depending on the
lessons being taught. The common stages of education system starts with kindergarten, primary
Now that we have know the meaning of education, finally we can go through its relation
with love and how it will affect the student in achieving success in their studies. But before we
going much deeper, lets us see an example of how love towards education, when really being
appreciate by the student will give a big impact on his or her studies.
Story of Nik Nur Madihah bt Nik Mohd Akmal, a girl who scored 20A’s in 2008 SPM
despite living in poverty and experiencing much difficulties in going through her life as a
student. How she done it? It seems to be not logical for someone who live in a such small and
depleted house with a rent of RM90 per month, forgot to eat at school as her allowance is only
enough for the bus ride fee, and have no side class or tuition to score such a shocking and
amazing result compared to other students who come from more well off families (blogspot.my,
2009). From where did she obtained the strength and courage to study 20 subjects and actually
did score all A’s? This is exactly where we can see how love towards education can be so
This ambitious young girl is a living proof of someone who really love education and
from this very pure love, she managed to create very big achievement in her life. From copying
the whole dictionary until willing not to eat at school, she overcame every challenges succesfully
and she made it to the top. Nik Nur Madihah is one from many other successfull stories of
Education is something that you need to embrace and enjoy when doing it. Only when
you pouring your love towards subjects you are learning and classes you going to attend and
assignments you need to finish, that’s the moment you will gain both strength and courage
needed to achieve success. Through education, people will be able to acquire the skills they need
to navigate the world. Education also indirectly have the same benefits as love. It connects
people, and also easily spread to all over the world. Together with love, it brings lots of blessings
and help. Right education can lead you to unlimited possibilities, and set you in th right path to
Knowledge belong to Him, The Wise. It is like a vast ocean that never ends. And to seek
knowledge is an obligation for each and every of us. It would not be a detriment to a person to
continue his study, gain more and more awareness thus making him much wiser person in life.
Indeed, everything that we do depends on education. If we don’t have the best education ever,
we can’t overcome whatever challenge we have in the future. Nelson Mandela said education is
the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. Education comes in many forms, not
necessarily in books, but there is no knowledge that isn’t woth knowing. Focus on what are you
Creator Himself. Love give us purpose to achieve something, together it gives us strength and
courage upon doing it. We all feel love, experience love, dream love. Every single human
practice of how to love and express them. It is undeniable that life sometimes may not be on our
side, with lots of challenges adn hardship, but believe me, love conquers all. Come forth
whatever it is we will be able to overcome it because of why? Because we have love in us. We
are love.
And after loking through examples that show love will help us in study, enabling us to
achieve higher marks and get to improve our soft skills, no doubt anymore that there are no
reasons of why love cannot be used as tools or as a medicine or cure for our problems in life. Lao
Tzu saw this along his journey to the West, putting himself together with nature in finding the
true path and peace. And through this quote, he left us his legacy, leaving us to discover by
In life, you have to find a way. There will be no one to help you when you’re in trouble
except for yourself. Plus you have something inside you, you have LOVE. Use it to control your
problems. Don’t let them control you instead. That is exactly how an excellent student would be
whenever they are facing with any problems. You should recognize your own strength and be
One day, our life will come to an end and during that time it’s already too late to show
your gratitude towards someone you love. Appreciate the time also not to mention the love that
you shared with them. Live your life happily. Spread the love, and be honest to yourself. Have
faith and never give up in walking your path of life. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery
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