The Cost of Love

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything,
and two minus one equals nothing.
--Mignon McLaughlin

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much,
and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
--Francois FéNelon

The cost of love is not as important as the value.
--from Just One Fool Thing After Another

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
--Merle Shan

Into the world of fears and hatreds we need to pour a double portion of the spirit of confidence in the power of love. Not peace at any price, but love at all cost. All our problems today resolve themselves into the problem of learning to live together.
--Canon Peter Green

They are but beggars that can count their worth,
But my true love is grown to such excess,
I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.
--William Shakespeare

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
--Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.
--Sir Walter Walter Raleigh

If you love someone you will be loyal to him/her no matter what the cost.
--Saint Paul

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
--Jo Coudert

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

Love is like a bazaar: The admittance is free-- but it costs you something before you get out.
--Author Unknown

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
--Author Unknown

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses
--Lord Dewar

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
--Amy Carmichael

In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The great eternal Government above
Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth.
Give thy love freely; do not count the cost;
So beautiful a thing was never lost
In the long run.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold
and good health have vanished.
--Og Mandingo

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
--Henny Youngman

Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you.
Learn to be receptive of that gift.
--Kurt Langner

Grief is the price we pay for love
--Queen Elizabeth II