Greatest Love Of All Lyrics

Lyric discussion by zosimo1152 

Cover art for Greatest Love Of All lyrics by Whitney Houston

first verse: first is the perspective of our future. song talks about our future. the children.

I believe the children are our future - perspective, setting the tone in looking forward.

Teach them well and let them lead the way - if they are the future, we should lead them.

Show them all the beauty they possess inside - encourage the future.

Give them a sense of pride to make it easier - sense of accountability, ownership.

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be - they are the direct reflection of ourselves

2nd verse: second is, the tone of a normal person. 9 out of 10 a person thinks.

Everybody's searching for a hero - this is us People need someone to look up to - yes we do

I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs - this however, the composer inserted his own perspective.

A lonely place to be And so I learned to depend on me - based on the composer's experience he learned.

Chorus: The composer talks about his experience, life is full of failure and success.

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows - dont imitate someone, be yourself.

If I fail, if I succeed At least I'll live as I believe - your own experiences teaches you, and gives you accountability and ownership of your failures.

No matter what they take from me They can't take away my dignity - other people say your wrong but you know you can trust to depend on what you believe in, and be strong that way.

Because the greatest love of all Is happening to me - the composer says the reason is that the greatest love is evident in his life.

I found the greatest love of all Inside of me - again declaration, that greatest love is within

The greatest love of all Is easy to achieve - if its easy you and I can probably do it too.

Learning to love yourself It is the greatest love of all - this is very deep. let me try to enumerate. loving ourselves amounts to many different things.

  • we respect ourselves
  • we are confident
  • we know that God is actually Love itself. ok the reason why this is, is because God teaches love. here is the love that Jesus is talking about.

“ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’c This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

if you love God, you will love everyone else and yourself too.

if you love God, it means you will know respect, you will know peace, you will know how important self esteem is. God is love and this is what the song is saying. the composer found the greatest Love of all.

My Interpretation

@zosimo1152 Linda Creed posits that the greatest love of all is learning to love yourself. Note she also warns that this can lead you to a lonely place, and provides a solution; 'find your strength in love'

In life we often assign the responsibility or duty for loving ourselves to another person or a to group of people, this called emotional dependence. When that person or group of people withhold that love, our whole world collapses.

The remedy for this is called emotional freedom, it frees one from the shackles of depending on other people for one's own happiness. ...