"Life is Difficult"

"Life is difficult, this is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.  It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we trascend it.... Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters....Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing....it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning.  Problems are the cutting edge that distinguish between success and failure...."  opening paragraphs from M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Travelled