Remember always that it is easy to do what is pleasant; but it is
difficult to be engaged in what is beneficial. Not all that is
pleasant is profitable. Success comes to those who give up the
path strewn with roses, and brave the hammer-blows and sword-thrusts
of the path fraught with danger.
-Sri Sathya Sai
Speaks, Vol 1 Ch 14, Sep 2, 1958.