"A lot of people would be a lot happier if they could back off a little bit and see things for how they are rather than how they wish they were." That's one of

"A lot of people would be a lot happier if they could back off a little bit and see things for how they are rather than how they wish they were." That's one of the central messages in Buddhism, FWIW. It's what "desire is the root of suffering" refers to.