Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

The quote frames hardship as inevitable (“life knocks you…”) and shifts the moral center from avoiding pain to practicing recovery. The repeated imperative “get up” dramatizes resilience as an active, ongoing choice rather than a single moment of courage. The second sentence offers a definition of happiness grounded in agency: well-being is not a problem-free life but a capacity—skills, perspective, and emotional regulation—that lets a person meet difficulties without being undone by them. In this view, happiness is compatible with struggle, and maturity consists in learning responses that keep setbacks from becoming identity or destiny.