Les Brown
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Ladies and gentlemen, living a dream, changing your life is hard.
It's hard when you lose all your money, when you've given it the best that you have, and when you have some major setback.
It's hard.
When a doctor looked at me and said the three horrible words no one wants to hear, you have cancer.
It was hard to mobilize my mind and spirit to listen to tapes and music and read scripture and be around other people and seeking out other prostate cancer conquerors to believe.
that I could do this.
It was hard.
I'll never forget my son said, Daddy, are you going to die?
Why are you asking me that?
You're not going out much.
You're not the bubbly personality that I know you to be.
You're not talking much.
You're spending a lot of time in the room by yourself, Dad.
Are you going to surrender?
Are you giving up?
Are you going to let that doctor's opinion become your reality?
Will my daddy see me graduate?
Yes, yes, son, yes.
Yes, I'm going to fight.
No, no, I don't think it's my time yet.