Love is always being given where it is not required.

The line suggests that love, at its most genuine, is not a transaction or a response to obligation. It is offered freely—often precisely in situations where it is unnecessary, unasked for, or even unwelcome. Forster’s phrasing implies a quiet paradox: the places where love is “required” (duty, social expectation, reciprocity) are not where its essence is most visible. Instead, love reveals itself as surplus, gift, and risk—an act that exceeds need and calculation. The statement also carries a faint critique of moral or social systems that try to regulate affection, implying that love’s value lies in its spontaneity and its refusal to be reduced to requirement.