"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."
— Gautama Buddha
In The End Only Three Things
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
About this quote
This quote is a modern fabrication with no basis in any Buddhist scripture. It does not appear in the Pali Canon, the Dhammapada, or any other canonical Buddhist text. Researchers at FakeBuddhaQuotes.com identify it as a variant of a saying lifted from Jack Kornfield's Buddha's Little Instruction Book — a popular collection of Kornfield's own reflections, not a translation of scripture. The thematic elements (love, gentleness, letting go) are individually consistent with Buddhist teaching, but the Buddha never assembled them in this form.
Source
Attributed, widely reported in Buddhist anthologies
