May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Framed as a benediction, the line links two measures of a fulfilled life: longevity and enduring affection. The first clause (“live as long as you wish”) grants agency—life not merely extended, but aligned with one’s own desire and purpose. The second (“love as long as you live”) shifts from quantity of years to quality of living, implying that love—romantic, familial, or humane—should persist to the end rather than fade with age or hardship. The symmetry of “as long as” makes love the companion virtue to life itself: not an episode within living, but its sustaining condition and meaning.