Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the...
On a soap happiness never lasts for very long!
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past but an infinite number of brackets extending either way each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.