楽らくは苦くの種たね、苦くは楽らくの種たね
Meanings
Expression
Proverb
1. there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain
Kanji used
comfort
suffering
seed
Composed of
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; progeny; offspring; paternal blood; lineage; sperm
one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain