Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.

The line frames love as fundamentally non-transactional: it is not a bargain for affection, security, or reward, but a commitment to generosity. By contrasting “expecting to get” with “expecting to give,” it rejects entitlement and casts love as an active practice—attention, patience, sacrifice, and care. The final clause (“which is everything”) intensifies the claim: genuine love asks for total investment of self, not in a self-erasing way necessarily, but in the sense that love’s measure is the breadth of what one is willing to contribute. The sentiment aligns with a modern ethical ideal of love as gift rather than exchange.