“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But be of good cheer! I have overcome the world.”
– Jesus, in John 16:33

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
– Hebrews 12:2

(According to the Christian faith, your happiness is “the joy that was set before him.”)

In the original 1605 version of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Quixote never meets Dulcinea, but sees her only in the distance. Yet everything he endures and accomplishes is in her name and for her honor. Being in the distance (the future and the past) Dulcinea is completely unaware. Some see Quixote as a figure of Christ, and Dulcinea as the disenfranchised people for whom he died. It is an interesting thought, no? – Indy Beagle

The painting is by the great Marcel Nino Pajot