2182 | Les Brown: “Don’t Let Someone Else Determine Who You’re Going to Be.”

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Sean Croxton

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Les Brown delivers a heartfelt reminder that love is not something you give — it's something you become. In this inspiring talk, he challenges us to choose love no matter the circumstances, and to live from a place of compassion, presence, and purpose.

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0:00.0	Yo, today's QOD is, don't let someone else determine who you're going to be.
0:06.5	Here we go. Welcome back to the quote of the day.
0:34.7	I'm your host, Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton croxon dot com happy monday to you my friend
0:39.2	hope your weekend was all kinds of amazing we got les brown on the show today to kick off our week
0:45.0	today less is going to inspire us to be more loving individuals to really come from a place of love to show up as love, regardless of how people
0:57.5	treat you, regardless of your circumstances, just live from a place of love, from compassion,
1:03.7	from presence, and from purpose. Les Browns coming up.
1:11.6	Here's something I encourage you to do.
1:14.6	Whatever you do, do it in a consciousness of love.
1:20.6	See, if you love what you do and if you decide to love people, to make wherever you are an experience of love, just decide to be a loving person regardless if the people you're around are loving or not. Just see, I've never read anywhere
1:49.1	where they say, God has love. I've never read that. What is, what, but how does it go?
1:57.8	What, what is? God is love.
2:02.4	Not that God has love.
2:08.0	Now, if we are the children of God, we have the offspring of God, then we are what?
2:09.1	Love.
2:11.9	See, love is not an emotion.
2:15.3	Love is not something you can give.
2:16.8	You can't give love.
2:22.7	You must be love. You've got to be a loving person.
2:29.3	So as you operate in that consciousness, and this comes not just overnight with enlightenment or insight or just someone recommending that, but with practice, practice and practice and doing it and doing it and doing it, and working consciously.
2:41.2	How do you do that?
2:42.3	With all of the evil things and evil people, how do you do that?
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