“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.”

— Steve Maraboli

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 64

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1975

Andrew Matthews (1948) British writer

Source: Happiness Now!

“I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

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“The criticality of a resource can be measured as the ability of an organization to function in the absence of the resource or in the absence of the market for the output.”

Gerald R. Salancik (1943–1996) American organizational theorist

Source: The External Control of Organizations, 1978, p. 46

“The criticality of a resource can be measured as the ability of an organization to function in the absence of the resource or in the absence of the market for the output.”

Jeffrey Pfeffer (1946) American academic

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“Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.”

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) American writer

Source: For the Inward Journey

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

"Address at Commencement Exercises at Eureka College in Illinois," May 9, 1982. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=42501
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)

“The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)

“Deal-making is an ability you're born with. It's in the genes.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 45

“I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.”

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