love

To answer the question,
"is it better to have loved and lost, than to not have loved at all?"
is mayhap impossible.

For once one has loved, to conceive of an existence without that love is incomprehensible.

we only believe what we live

"... till we aim at complete, unreserved obedience in all things, we are not really Christians at all."
~ John Henry Newman

What is the meaning of life?

love.