Happiness vs. Excitement

Too many people pursue happiness. You shouldn't. Because happy situations rarely stay happy. Instead, you should pursue excitement. Everyone gets excited over little and big things. Excitement is actually the glue that holds together happiness. -- Frankie

Or some bullshit like that. The point is...embrace the excitement and treat it as happiness and be content with that!

I get excited over lots of little things: seeing my nephews after weeks and weeks of not, the thought of doing something i've wanted to do in a long time, a new episode of Once Upon A Time, hearing someone's good news, etc. Thinking like this helps me get through tricky times and would highly recommend practising the principle if life is dealing you a shitty hand lately.