Okay, a quote that’s rattling around my brain:
“If you’re only happy based on your life circumstances, you’re not really happy at all.”
or,
“If the only things that make you happy are temporary and fleeting (your work, your possessions, even your friends), your happiness is really only temporary and fleeting.”
or,
“If you’re only happy when things are going well, you’re doing it wrong.”
or something to that effect.
Is that something real that a super-enlightened Buddhist guy (or other happy person) has said or would say? Or am I making this up?