“Love is not concerned with a person’s accomplishments, it is a response to a person’s being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are. Happiness is love’s outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved they are an end in themselves, and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love’s essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love." Dietrich von Hildebrand