Given that the quote is talking about following your heart, I think the intention is to combat the idea of "I want to follow my heart but am scared of losing wh

Given that the quote is talking about following your heart, I think the intention is to combat the idea of "I want to follow my heart but am scared of losing what I have". So the quote's intention would be "you might lose everything due to other unforeseen circumstances anyway so just follow your heart".