好事多磨

the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom)

good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead

to be meddlesome

matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

many; much / too many; in excess / (after a numeral) ... odd / how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]) / (bound form) multi-; poly-

to rub / to grind / to polish / to sharpen / to wear down / to die out / to waste time / to pester / to insist

grindstone / to grind / to turn round