Love

Love is the constant optimist. Since she only sees the good in everyone, people have called her naïve and innocent. She is neither. Her wisdom is deeper than they could ever imagine. From her deep understanding of human nature comes her unconditional compassion.

She shared an apartment with Honor and Wisdom in college, and they remain best friends to this day. Their former neighbor, Logic, always called her emotional and too passionate, but Love didn't mind.

Animals and small children are always drawn to her, and she has an amazing garden. When Effort asked her for her gardening secrets, she smiled and told him that to nourish anything was to acknowledge each living thing's highest potential, ever within. That was too simple for Effort.

Love lives in a sunny house with great windows and bouquets of flowers in every room. She gives elaborate parties, open to everyone. Greed is worried that she'll waste her fortune or lose everything on strangers, but Love knows it will always, in all ways, come back to her.

Love has been a conscientious objector to many wars. To her mind, no reason could possibly justify war. When Anger asked why she wouldn't march with him in the war rally, she told him she would prefer to have her actions support peace rather than inadvertently give life to that which could only create pain and sadness for so many.

In these challenging times on the planet, many have come to admire Love's wisdom and grace. Doubt and Confusion have both told her that when they face dilemmas now, they have started asking themselves the question, "What would Love do now?"