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

Yes, I totally agree. It is not love if it makes you weaker. That is parasitism.
To love and be loved requires strength of heart, strength of the mind and strength of character.
Strength of heart is to have faith when hope seemingly have failed.
Strength of the mind to enable one to weave through the deep intricacies of life and make the right decisions.
Strength of character to keep the love pure and uncontaminated by lust.
Only the faithful can love truly, deeply and purely.
Love is not forbidden by the syariat, so don't be fooled by the foolish.
Isn't Basmalah-In The Name Of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful?
So there is no way that love is forbidden.
What is forbidden is the contamination by lust.
This is what we should refrain from doing. Always remember that there is always two sides of a coin: in this case, there is the right, correct way to go about things as opposed to the wrong twisted way that is forbidden.
So my friend, be strong for the one you love. If you have to fight for it, then fight. As long as we didn't just let our love slip away just because we are too afraid to be honest with ourselves.
If you let that happen, then you are not worthy of love.
Why?
The reason is because love takes a lot of work and responsibility. Take for an example a situation when someone gave you something to guard and keep. If someone or something threaten to take it out of your hands, then you have to protect and care for it with everything that you can so that it is not lost.
When someone gives you their heart, bear in mind that the heart is an important part of their being. It is essentially an Amanah. So if you don't want to take responsibility for it, then say it to them as gently as possible and as soon as you can make it. Don't wait until it is too late and the person has already fallen so deep. If you do, than you are nothing but a cruel person.
In this note, my friend, if you are the one giving their heart to someone then do take care. Don't give it all away until there is nothing left for your own. Be wary of who you open your heart to and pray. Pray. Pray and ask for that someone to realize how meaningful a gift of a heart is...
If they refuse to accept even though you tried, then cry a little and hold your head high. Then move on. Have faith that everything is for the better.
Ultimately, be strong and believe that there is a greater love, a higher love. The ONE love.
Then I think you'll be alright :)