“Love abides! Whatever the world takes away from you… whatever happens to you in life… however you may have to suffer because of your striving… if nevertheless in any of your actions, in any of your words, you have truly loved, then take comfort, for love abides. What you knew with love will be a consolation more blessed than any sort of achievement any human being could have accomplished… Neither the present nor the future, neither angels nor devils, not even the fearful thoughts of your unquiet mind, will be able to take it from you, not in the stormiest, most difficult moment of your life, any more than in the last moment of your life—because love abides.”
⁃ Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
