A person's past does not define their future, and that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and a

Sean Crox and .com. I've got an incredible story to share with you today. It's

from Dr. BJ Davis. You are never going to forget this one. And it's about the

power of believing in yourself. And the fact that no matter how bad things may

get, you always have the power to turn them around. Here's Dr. Davis. I work as

a co-director at a substance abuse and co-occurring mental illness treatment

agency. And not a day goes by that I take that for granted. In 1999 I

parole from prison for the second time. For the second time. Apparently, once

wasn't enough for me. Yeah, it's pretty scary. That's me. I'll tell you I spent over

eight years in prison, on probation or on parole for numerous felony drug charges.

For ten years I woke up smoking crack every morning and went to bed smoking crack

every night. I spent most of my time trying to escape the helpless, hopeless

reality of my life by getting high. On the worst day I remember selling in

$8,000 car that my mom had given me that I loved to my crack dealer for $40,

for $4, $20 rocks. That memory is so painful that actually this is the first time

I've ever shared it publicly. I came as close to giving up on life as one can

without jumping off. But something extraordinary happened to me the second time I

went to prison. About two months into my sentence I got a letter from my ex-wife

telling me that my mother, the person I professed 11 care about more than anyone in

the world, had had a heart attack and was likely going to die. This wasn't my

biological mother who had abandoned me shortly after I was born, but the real

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