Virtue isn’t a golden ticket to a pain-free life. Bad things happen to good people as often as they happen to bad people. In the natural order of the world, suffering is random. To expect otherwise is to sentence oneself to despondency, disillusionment, bitterness and anger. HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS: The reward you get for being a good person isn’t a shield protecting you from misfortune, but an inner-strength that helps you deal with it, overcome it and learn from it, so you can still find love, laughter and joy despite it. — Michael Josephson