Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
Just as the soft rains fill the streams, pour into the rivers and join together in the oceans, so may the power of every moment of your goodness flow forth to awaken and heal all beings.
Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realise you have a lot left to look forward to.