the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ǎ OSH ì Du ō Qi ā n, which means "good things go through a lot". It comes from Guan Yunshi's a branch of flowers. It's lonely.
explain
It means good things go through a lot. It refers to the love between men and women.
source
Source: yuan guanyunshi's divertimento of a flower: "as the saying goes, good things are easy, but steep things are hard."
the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks
sit idly by without lending a helping hand - zuò shī bù jiù