For sure, it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved. I think back to my earlier romantic loves and remember the pain of separation. There were a few of those I loved and wondered if they would ever appear in my life again. They seem to have made an appearance and an impact, then they are gone and I found I had grown from that experience and moved on in my life so that if they did come into my life again they would never have the impact on me as it did in my earlier years. The heartbreaks seem to have made for some pretty good songstoo! I remembering when I first met my husband and our eyes met. It was love at first site! We became best friends and built a life together which we both still enjoy. It was that friendship that kept us together after the honeymoon stage of love. That brings me to the point of different types of love. The love for your friends or a mothers love for her child. Being a mother to me that is one of the greater loves and totally changed my being. There is also the more spiritual love. Then there is the Metta, or loving kindness, often used in meditation to develop compasion for others. What about the opposite of love? Hatred? Greed, Hatred and Delusion are the three greatest things that will lead you down the wrong path of sin and corruption. Knowing the power of love, which brings goodness and peace, I would say let there be more love, however much love there could possibly be. That is the world I want to live in.