Did The Buddha Really Say This?

[Xangsamhua]

I have seen the following cited as a quote from the Buddha. It has appeared on Buddhist forums and on several sites found from a Google search.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

However, I can't find any source for it. Did the Buddha really say it? I doesn't sound authentic to me.

[Brucenkhamen]

It's interesting it appears on lots of quote sites, but few if any Buddhist sites.

You're right it doesn't seem authentic.

[lungmi]

It's interesting it appears on lots of quote sites, but few if any Buddhist sites.

You're right it doesn't seem authentic.

Forget it for the Buddha Teaching, but it's a good way for inderstanding.

[cheeryble]

Whosoever's mouth it came out of this is effectively the Stoic method of negative visualisation.

[khaowong1]

If the Buddha didn't say it, he probably should have. What a great way to look at things. I'm going to jot that down and use it.

Edited April 25, 2011 by khaowong1

[norad]

Lord Buddha did not say that.

None of the sentence ever come close to his teaching.

May be some other religions.......