"If you are grateful for where you are, you have to respect the road that got you there.

We must appreciate all that we survive: the small, the medium, and the monumental. Find gratitude in your life story. Wake up every morning and say to yourself, “I made it here from where I started, and I am so proud of that.” When we do this, we bless ourselves and feed ourselves with the love required for us to flourish and keep going no matter where we come from or what we have been through."

~ Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life