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.

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

You're right it doesn't seem authentic.

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.

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

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, 201115 yr by khaowong1

Lord Buddha did not say that.

None of the sentence ever come close to his teaching.

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