我相当喜欢的英格兰皇后Catherine（Queen of Aragon，daughter of Isabella in Spain）在被Henry VIII抛弃的时候，甚至消减了她的作为一个西班牙公主的所以生活开支时，她说：“ If i had to choose between extreme happyness and extreme sorrow, I will always choose sorrow. For when you're happy you forget, forget the spirit of faith, forget about the God. But when you sorrow, the God is alway with you. （大意是：如果要我在极乐和极悲中做出选择，我一定会选择悲伤。因为愉悦使人遗忘，快乐时你会忘记信仰，忘记上帝，然而当你悲伤时，上帝会永远与你同在。）也不怪得，佛主释迦牟尼只有在痛苦和极艰苦的环境下，才悟出道来，凡夫俗子怎有此能耐。
