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“Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.”
― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
― Les Brown, The Power of Purpose

“In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was.
"That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves."
"Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.”
― Anne Rice

“I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs”
― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams

“The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.”
― Les Brown

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain