All the Love

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Let’s celebrate this love quote with a tangential parable, The Giving Tree – “And the boy loved the tree… very much. And the tree was happy.” Yes, there’s a few different ways to interpret that story beyond the unconditional love interpretation, and it can evoke different emotions. That’s okay.

About the author

Siddhartha Gautama , most commonly referred to as the Buddha (“the awakened”), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.