If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.

Do you know what it means to love somebody? Do you know what it means to love a tree, or a bird, or a pet animal, so that you take care of it, feed it, cherish it, though it may give you nothing in return, though it may not offer you shade, or follow you, or depend on you? Most of us don’t love in that way, we don’t know what that means at all because our love is always hedged about with anxiety, jealousy, fear — which implies that we depend inwardly on another, we want to be loved. We don’t just love and leave it there, but we ask something in return; and in that very asking we become dependent.

So freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something — and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

To love work for work’s sake and not for its gain.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Love is the absence of judgment.

Giving love to others and not expecting it back is also a form of self-love.