In my view, difficulties are better than pleasure and comforts. It is not prudent to pray for happiness and comfort. The wisdom you gain in times of difficulty is not available in happy times. You ask any realized soul or saintly person as to how he acquired great wisdom. He will tell you that he underwent several sorrows and difficulties and then only he could get wisdom. Today, people desire to have liberation without undergoing any difficulty or without spending a single pie.  How is it possible? You must work hard. Just by sitting somewhere and happily enjoying things, you will find difficulties painful. It is only after undergoing challenges that you must enjoy happiness.

                                                                         - Divine Discourse,  12 Oct, 2002.

Life is a challenge, meet it. - Baba