Everyone is a philosopher when it comes to love. Loving oneself is basic and fundamental to a happy, stable life. Love is, says one person, a many, splendid thing. Another sings, "love is a rose," fragrant and beautiful, but thorny and painful, and another suggests that "love means never having to say you're sorry." Shakespeare wrote in Merchant of Venice, "love is blind." Gilbert said, "it's love that makes the world go round," and Tennyson suggested that it is "better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." __(Thinking Biblically About Love) 24-July-2005 __®õ¦w¤õ¨®¯¸