To love and to lose... stinks.

It is better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all

Bullshit

Hello. I'd like you to live without money, in a house you built yourself. From twigs and mud. Pick, grow and cultivate your own food, without electricity, ever. No running water. Open fires. When you family gets sick, you will chant and wave sticks. They'll probably die or something.
Why are you not looking enthusiastic?

Now, people used to live like that. They may strive to improve their lives, but that did not seem like hell to them. They would enjoy that situation much more than you would. No plasma TVs. OMFG.

You do not what what you've never had, anything like as strongly as what you already miss. It is better to be happy. It is better to never love.

I;m not saying you should never love I'm saying ultimately, you should love without losing.