You can feel like the world's most hopeless basket case, but that feeling is your wealth, not something to be thrown out or improved upon. There's a richness to all of the smelly stuff that we so dislike and so little desire. The delightful things — what we love so dearly about ourselves, the places in which we feel some sense of pride or inspiration — these also are our wealth.
— Pema Chodron, Start Where You Are