Love Quote by Og Mandino

Mandino’s line reads like a gentle benediction, but it’s really a piece of hard-nosed triage: decide what to bank when the body’s guarantees start expiring. As a self-help author who built a career on parables of grit and redemption, he isn’t interested in romance as decoration; he’s selling a hierarchy of value. Health is framed not as something to ignore, but as something famously nonrenewable. Love, by contrast, is cast as an asset that compounds, lingers, and outlives the physical self.

The craft is in the contrast. “Treasure” is an economic verb that smuggles in a moral ledger, urging readers to treat affection as the real currency. “Above all” presses the point with evangelical simplicity: stop ranking career wins, vitality, or status as if they’re durable. Then comes the quiet gut-punch: “after your good health has vanished.” Not “declined” or “changed,” but vanished, a word that doesn’t negotiate. The sentence forces you to picture your future self stripped of the one advantage modern culture fetishizes - energy, attractiveness, autonomy - and asks what remains.

Subtextually, it’s also a rebuke to the wellness era before the wellness era: you can optimize your body and still lose the lottery. Mandino’s promise is more psychological than metaphysical. Love “survives” because it leaves traces: the care you gave, the people you shaped, the relationships that keep telling your story when you can’t perform your life anymore. It’s less Hallmark than memento mori with a hand on your shoulder.