Lion Inspirational Quotes

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Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
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C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1))
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All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.
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C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1))
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Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
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Francine Rivers (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
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Benito Mussolini
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If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.
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Criss Jami (Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality)
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Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
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Francine Rivers (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
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Francine Rivers (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.
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Francine Rivers (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.
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Iyanla Vanzant (Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through)
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God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.
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Mark Batterson (In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars)
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The Lord will provide.
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Francine Rivers (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.
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Mark Batterson (In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars)
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If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but Iโ€™ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.
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Mark Batterson (In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars)
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If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginning-less time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light.
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Lion turtle
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ู„ู‚ุฏ ุชุฎู„ูŠุช ุนู…ุง ู„ุง ูŠู…ูƒู†ู†ูŠ ุฃู† ุฃุญุชูุธ ุจู‡ุŒ ููŠ ุณุจูŠู„ ู…ุง ู„ุง ุฃู‚ุฏุฑ ุฃู† ุฃุฎุณุฑู‡.
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ูุฑู†ุณูŠู† ุฑูŠูุฑุฒ (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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after all, the bible was always talking about miracles. i figured that if Daniel could get out of the lion's den alive and Jonah could come up unharmed from the belly of a whale, then surely ole T.j. could get out of going to prison.
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Mildred D. Taylor (Let the Circle Be Unbroken (Logans, #5))
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Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
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Ina May Gaskin (Ina May's Guide to Childbirth)
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To every LGBTQIA+ person who has questioned their place in life: You're strong. You're important. You're a lion. Let the world hear you roar.
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Julian Winters (Running with Lions)
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Down the narrow trail to the sound of sea lions barking their belonging, we wandered into their world, the one we thought was ours.
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Don Hynes (Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit)
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God found Gideon in a hole. He found Joseph in a prison. He found Daniel in a lionโ€™s den. He has a curious habit of showing up in the midst of trouble, not the absence. Where the world sees failure, God sees future. Next time you feel unqualified to be used by God remember this, he tends to recruit from the pit, not the pedestal.
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Jon Acuff
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The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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ุฅู† ู„ู… ูŠูƒูู† ู„ุฏูŠู†ุง ู…ุง ูŠุณุชุญู‚ู‘ู ุฃู† ู†ู…ูˆุชูŽ ู…ู† ุฃุฌู„ู‡ุŒ ูŠุง ุฃุชุฑูŠุชูุณุŒ ูู„ูŠุณ ู„ูŽุฏูŽูŠู†ุง ู…ุง ูŠุณุชุญู‚ู‘ู ุฃู† ู†ุนูŠุดูŽ ู„ุฃุฌู„ู‡
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ูุฑู†ุณูŠู† ุฑูŠูุฑุฒ (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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Rise and rise again and again like The Phoenix from the ashes; until the lambs have become lions.
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Maitreya
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In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
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Akilnathan Logeswaran
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It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
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Elizabeth Kenny
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Be as fierce as a lion. Let the world hear you roar.
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Amaka Imani Nkosazana (Heart Crush)
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Quick work doesn't mean less serious work, it depends on one's self-confidence and experience. In the same way Jules Guรฉrard, the lion hunter, says in his book that in the beginning young lions have a lot of trouble killing a horse or an ox, but that the old lions kill with a single blow of the paw or a well-placed bite, and that they are amazingly sure at the job... I must warn you that everyone will think that I work too fast. Don't you believe a word of it. Is it not emotion, the sincerity of one's feeling for nature, that draws us, and if the emotions are sometimes so strong that one works without knowing one works, when sometimes the strokes come with a continuity and coherence like words in a speech or a letter, then one must remember that it has not always been so, and that in time to come there will again be hard days, empty of inspiration. So one must strike while the iron is hot, and put the forged bars on one side.
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Vincent van Gogh
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It is false to believe that the scale of fears corresponds to that of the dangers which inspire them. One might be frightened of sleeplessness and yet not of a duel, of a rat and not of a lion.
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Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7])
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It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.
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David Baldacci (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 319, 2012 #1: One Summer / Cast Into Doubt / Casting About / The Lion)
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ู„ูŠุณ ููŠ ูˆุณุน ุงู„ุจุดุฑ ุฃู† ูŠุชุฌู†ู‘ูŽุจูˆุง ุงู„ู…ุตูŠุฑุŒ ุญุชู‰ ู„ูˆ ุฑุฃูˆู‡ ุณูŽู„ูŽูุงู‹
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ูุฑู†ุณูŠู† ุฑูŠูุฑุฒ (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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Donโ€™t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams; lions have little in common with sheep.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.
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Jon Meacham (American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House)
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No matter what life throws your way, keep your head up. As long as you're learning, you're living.
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Sistar SunRA (Queen of Hearts (Lions & Love, #1))
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Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a tool against her, for when her heart and mind were on Marcus, Julia lay forgotten. Nothing must distract her from her mission here. And no one.
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Francine Rivers (An Echo in the Darkness (Mark of the Lion, #2))
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Faith is a decision.It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn't always look as though He does.Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lion's den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things always work. It is an act of the will, a choice, based on the Unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ.
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Elisabeth Elliot (Secure in the Everlasting Arms)
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In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat. The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all. โ€”Isaiah 11:6
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Gary Chapman (Love Is a Verb Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring Love Alive)
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Here at our ministry we refuse to present a picture of โ€œgentle Jesus, meek and mild,โ€ a portrait that tugs at your sentiments or pulls at your heartstrings. Thatโ€™s because we deal with so many people who suffer, and when youโ€™re hurting hard, youโ€™re neither helped nor inspired by a syrupy picture of the Lord, like those sugary, sentimental images many of us grew up with. You know what I mean? Jesus with His hair parted down the middle, surrounded by cherubic children and bluebirds. Come on. Admit it: When your heart is being wrung out like a sponge, when you feel like Mortonโ€™s salt is being poured into your wounded soul, you donโ€™t want a thin, pale, emotional Jesus who relates only to lambs and birds and babies. You want a warrior Jesus. You want a battlefield Jesus. You want his rigorous and robust gospel to command your sensibilities to stand at attention. To be honest, many of the sentimental hymns and gospel songs of our heritage donโ€™t do much to hone that image. One of the favorite words of hymn writers in days gone by was sweet. Itโ€™s a term that downโ€™t have the edge on it that it once did. When youโ€™re in a dark place, when lions surround you, when you need strong help to rescue you from impossibility, you donโ€™t want โ€œsweet.โ€ You donโ€™t want faded pastels and honeyed softness. You want mighty. You want the strong arm an unshakable grip of God who will not let you go โ€” no matter what.
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Joni Eareckson Tada (A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty)
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We are not a gaggle of geese or a pride of lions or a murder of crows...but a symphony of storytellers.
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Katherine Paterson
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A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Your greatest legacy isnโ€™t your dream. Your greatest legacy is the next generation of dreamers that your dream inspiresโ€”the dreams within a dream.
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Mark Batterson (Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small)
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Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. Youโ€™re a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. Youโ€™re twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, youโ€™d have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth
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Isaac Babel
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ุนู„ูŠู†ุง ุฃู† ู†ุบุชู†ู… ูƒู„ ูุฑุตุฉ ู„ู„ุชูƒู„ู‘ูู… ุจุงู„ุญู‚ ูˆุงู„ู…ูู†ุงุฏุงุฉ ุจุงู„ุณู„ุงู…ุŒ ูˆู„ุง ุณูŠู…ุง ุงู„ุขู†. ุจู‚ู‰ ูˆู‚ุช ู‚ุตูŠุฑูŒ ุฌุฏุงู‹ ู„ูƒุซูŠุฑูŠู† ุฌุฏุงู‹
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ูุฑู†ุณูŠู† ุฑูŠูุฑุฒ (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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We got teeth of a man but appetite of a lion!
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Vinita Kinra
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Donโ€™t be afraid of being alone; a lion does not rule the jungle with sheep at its side.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Battling wolves today strengthens you for battling lions tomorrow.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Itโ€™s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
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Robin Sharma (Daily Inspiration From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari)
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ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.
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Laurell K. Hamilton
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But Christianโ€ฆ he was unique, a rose blooming in a frozen tundra. Had Christian been a woman, he might have married a king. As a man, he could have any womanโ€™s bed, or all of them. He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.
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Eli Easton (The Lion and the Crow)
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Those who have never been to the edge and looked over will never understand that it is better to live one day as a lion than a lifetime as a sheep. The ones that been to the edge know that hard times don't last forever, but hard men do.
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British Royal Marines
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If in fact your time to be called before God, you typically won't know it. Sometimes you will, and these are the hardest of times: When the blood pours from your nose and down your throat, clogging it, causing you to spit and gag. You heave for breath in the smoke and dust. Your equipment seems to suffocate you. You wipe the salty sweat and grime from your eyes, only to realize that it is blood, either yours or that of the enemy. You would stand, but you can't move your legs. You grasp the open, gaping wounds in your body, trying not to pass out from the pain. You feel the anger thinking of the loved ones you will never see again, and losing your life infuriates your soul. You rage to get to your feet and grab for a weapon, any weapon. Regardless of your race, culture, or religion, you want to die standing, fighting like a warrior, an American, so others won't have to. For those looking for a definition, this is the price of freedom.
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Rusty Bradley (Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds)
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Lord, look down on Thy Servant! Bad things have come to pass. There is no heat in the midday sun, nor health in the wayside grass. His bones are full of an old diseaseโ€”his torments run and increase. Lord, make haste with Thy Lightning and grant him a quick release!
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Cherise Sinclair (Hour of the Lion (The Wild Hunt Legacy, #1))
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You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations
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Don Santo
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The lion is never afraid to walk alone,
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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SOME PEOPLE KEEP LIONS, BUT ALL THEY DO IS, RUN A CIRCUS. เค•เฅเค› เคฒเฅ‹เค— เคถเฅ‡เคฐ เคชเคพเคฒเคคเฅ‡ เคนเฅˆเค‚, เคชเคฐ เคธเคฐเฅเค•เคธ เคšเคฒเคพเคคเฅ‡ เคนเฅˆเค‚เฅค
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Vineet Raj Kapoor
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An anxious mind makes lions of tumble weeds.
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Stacey Lee (The Downstairs Girl)
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The story of the hunt only favors the hunter, until the lion tells the truth!
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African Proverb
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He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.
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Eli Easton (The Lion and the Crow)
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ุฌุงุก ุชูˆุจูŠุฎ ูˆุงู„ุฏุชู‡ุงุŒ ู…ุน ุฅู†ู‡ุง ุชููˆู‘ูŽู‡ุช ุจู‡ ุจุฑูู‚ุŒ ุดุฏูŠุฏ ุงู„ูˆู‚ุนูŽ ุนู„ู‰ ู…ุณู…ุน ู‡ูŽุฏู‘ูŽุณู‡. ูˆูƒุงู†ุช ู‚ุงู„ุช ู…ุฑุงุฑุงู‹ ู…ู† ู‚ูŽุจู„ู ุฅู†ู‡ ุญูŠู† ู„ุง ูŠุฎุฏู… ุงู„ู…ุฑุก ุงู„ู„ู‡ุŒุŒ ูู‡ูˆ ุจุงู„ุฃุญุฑุฉ ูŠุฎุฏู… ุงู„ุดุฑูŠุฑ ู…ู† ุฏูˆู† ุฃู† ูŠุฏุฑูŠ.
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ูุฑู†ุณูŠู† ุฑูŠูุฑุฒ (A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1))
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Expecting the world to be nice to you, just because you are, it's like expecting that a lion doesn't eat you just because you didn't eat him.
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Tomรกs Mendes
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A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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All great achievements of humanity begin with the madness of a few lion-hearts.
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Abhijit Naskar
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A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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They say โ€œas brave as lionโ€, they say โ€œas clever as foxโ€, they say โ€œ as friendly as dogโ€ but nobody says โ€œas something good as manโ€.
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Amit Kalantri
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Brave cubs become fierce lions.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Had Christian been a woman, he might have married a king. As a man, he could have any womanโ€™s bedโ€”or all of them. He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars. William
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Eli Easton (The Lion and the Crow)
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Speranศ›a este un sfetnic prost.
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Lion Feuchtwanger (Vulpile รฎn vie I)
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Life like a lion for just one day is better then sleeping all your life without doing something
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Dr Syed Muhammad Zeeshan Hussain Almashhadi
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Lions don't worry about what lambs think.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Pacifism is a psychological curiosity rather than a political movement. Some of the extremer pacifists, starting out with a complete renunciation of violence, have ended by warmly championing Hitler and even toying with antisemitism. This is interesting, but it is not important. โ€˜Pureโ€™ pacifism, which is a by-product of naval power, can only appeal to people in very sheltered positions. Moreover, being negative and irresponsible, it does not inspire much devotion.
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George Orwell (The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius)
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Lion Is fearless. Lion is not a survivor But a warrior. Lion Hunt Alone, Not in group. Lion Don't eat leftover, but hunt big. A Lion does not turn around when a small dog Barks. Lion Is the king of the jungle
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Andrew Rozario
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I could not tame my nature down; for he Must serve who fain would sway -- and soothe -- and sue -- And watch all time -- and pry into all place -- And be a living lie -- who would become A mighty thing amongst the mean, and such The mass are; I disdained to mingle with A herd, though to be leader -- and of wolves. The lion is alone, and so am I.
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Lord Byron
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The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musiciansโ€™ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.
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Abhijit Naskar (The Education Decree)
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Tonight I saw Jesus with the eyes on my face. He looks half lion and half man. But not more like a lion and not more like a man, rather the same, I have never seen anything like the face of Jesus before, %100 one thing but %100 another thing: a lion man!โ€ โ€œWhere did you see Him at?โ€ โ€œOn the surface of my blanket as I lay in bed. He was suddenly drawn onto it, like a sketch, and that same moment I knew He was showing His face to me, finally.โ€ โ€œWhy do you think He did that?โ€ โ€œI think He thought it was about time.
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C. JoyBell C.
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Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker.
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Suzy Kassem
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Any autonomous woman is a candidate for the 'fear-inspiring goddess.' Whether maiden or crone, the autonomous woman is feared as one who can emasculate men verbally as surely as Circe transformed unlucky men into lions and wolves with a tap of her wand. The rigid patriarch seems to fear that autonomous women will transform men into mice.
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Miriam Robbins Dexter (Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book)
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With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It is no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you simply have to run faster than others to survive.
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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (ุฑุคูŠุชูŠ)
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My son, you are just an infant now, but on that day when the world disrobes of its alluring cloak, it is then that I pray this letter is in your hands. Listen closely, my dear child, for I am more than that old man in the dusty portrait beside your bed. I was once a little boy in my motherโ€™s arms and a babbling toddler on my father's lap. I played till the sun would set and climbed trees with ease and skill. Then I grew into a fine young man with shoulders broad and strong. My bones were firm and my limbs were straight; my hair was blacker than a raven's beak. I had a spring in my step and a lion's roar. I travelled the world, found love and married. Then off to war I bled in battle and danced with death. But today, vigor and grace have forsaken me and left me crippled. Listen closely, then, as I have lived not only all the years you have existed, but another forty more of my own. My son, We take this world for a permanent place; we assume our gains and triumphs will always be; that all that is dear to us will last forever. But my child, time is a patient hunter and a treacherous thief: it robs us of our loved ones and snatches up our glory. It crumbles mountains and turns stone to sand. So who are we to impede its path? No, everything and everyone we love will vanish, one day. So take time to appreciate the wee hours and seconds you have in this world. Your life is nothing but a sum of days so why take any day for granted? Don't despise evil people, they are here for a reason, too, for just as the gift salt offers to food, so do the worst of men allow us to savor the sweet, hidden flavor of true friendship. Dear boy, treat your elders with respect and shower them with gratitude; they are the keepers of hidden treasures and bridges to our past. Give meaning to your every goodbye and hold on to that parting embrace just a moment longer--you never know if it will be your last. Beware the temptation of riches and fame for both will abandon you faster than our own shadow deserts us at the approach of the setting sun. Cultivate seeds of knowledge in your soul and reap the harvest of good character. Above all, know why you have been placed on this floating blue sphere, swimming through space, for there is nothing more worthy of regret than a life lived void of this knowing. My son, dark days are upon you. This world will not leave you with tears unshed. It will squeeze you in its talons and lift you high, then drop you to plummet and shatter to bits . But when you lay there in pieces scattered and broken, gather yourself together and be whole once more. That is the secret of those who know. So let not my graying hairs and wrinkled skin deceive you that I do not understand this modern world. My life was filled with a thousand sacrifices that only I will ever know and a hundred gulps of poison I drank to be the father I wanted you to have. But, alas, such is the nature of this life that we will never truly know the struggles of our parents--not until that time arrives when a little hand--resembling our own--gently clutches our finger from its crib. My dear child, I fear that day when you will call hopelessly upon my lifeless corpse and no response shall come from me. I will be of no use to you then but I hope these words I leave behind will echo in your ears that day when I am no more. This life is but a blink in the eye of time, so cherish each moment dearly, my son.
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Shakieb Orgunwall
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Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all.
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Gregory Maguire (The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked / Son of a Witch / Out of Oz / A Lion Among Men: A Special Collection of the Inspiration for the Major Motion Pictureโ€”Now Streaming)
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There was much to hate in this world, and too much to love.
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Gregory Maguire (The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked / Son of a Witch / Out of Oz / A Lion Among Men: A Special Collection of the Inspiration for the Major Motion Pictureโ€”Now Streaming)
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Lions aren't used to other creatures staring them down. It's a good tactic for life too; even if you're terrified inside, stare it in the eye.
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Boyd Varty (Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home)
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Stop being the sheep and become the lion my friend!
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Abhijit Naskar (Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens (Neurotheology Series))
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A lion is not afraid of walking alone, even if the whole jungle is pursuing it.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.
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Abhijit Naskar (The Film Testament)
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Once a hunter met a lion near the hungry critter's lair, and the way that lion mauled him was decidedly unfair; but the hunter never whimpered when the surgeons, with their thread, sewed up forty-seven gashes in his mutilated head; and he showed the scars in triumph, and they gave him pleasant fame, and he always blessed the lion that had camped upon his frame. Once that hunter, absent minded, sat upon a hill of ants, and about a million bit him, and you should have seen him dance! And he used up lots of language of a deep magenta tint, and apostrophized the insects in a style unfit to print. And it's thus with worldly troubles; when the big ones come along, we serenely go to meet them, feeling valiant, bold and strong, but the weary little worries with their poisoned stings and smarts, put the lid upon our courage, make us gray, and break our hearts.
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Walt Mason
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From the day we arrive on the planet And blinking step into the sun There's more to be seen than can ever be seen More to do than can ever be done Some say, eat or be eaten Some say, live and let live But, all are agreed as they join the stampede You should never take more than you give In the circle of life It's the wheel of fortune It's the leap of faith It's the band of hope Till we find our place On the path unwinding In the circle The Circle of Life
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Elton John (The Lion King)
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Not until something challenges you to rise up, you shall always stay down; not until you realize your enough is enough, you shall always have enough. When you keep exerting your energy, time and attention on things which least invoke your courage to rise up and climb to the distinctive best, you shall always stay at your best with the same energy, time and attention time on the less better you because of reluctance, ignorance and fear! The lion that hunts, is always on the move! Awake, challenge and change something!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Maybe life is like a walking safari. If you venture out expecting lions and leopards all the time youโ€™ll almost always never find them. Maybe the best things are the ones you never knew you wanted to see. The ones that, scary as they may seem, were just the things you needed to unleash reality. Iโ€™d selfishly written my story before even reaching Africa. Iโ€™d romanticized scenarios, fabricated settings, invented fantastical dialogue, and almost overlooked the lesson Iโ€™d been sent to learn โ€“ to live life on foot and not in my head, with fearlessness, presence, without expectation, and above all, with gratitude.
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Jill Paris (Life Is Like A Walking Safari)
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Love of god isn't for weak and the wicked hearts. Love ask not easy things some gave life, some crucified, some hanged in their life, some sold themselves in the bazar, some got stone pelted in deserts of mecca & some got their skin flayed. For the love of god to be concealed within requires a heart of a lion.
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Aiyaz Uddin
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The Howeitat spread out along the cliffs to return the peasants' fire. This manner of going displeased Auda, the old lion, who raged that a mercenary village folk should dare to resist their secular masters, the Abu Tayi. So he jerked his halter, cantered his mare down the path, and rode out plain to view beneath the easternmost houses of the village. There he reined in, and shook a hand at them, booming in his wonderful voice: 'Dogs, do you not know Auda?' When they realized it was that implacable son of war their hearts failed them, and an hour later Sherif Nasir in the town-house was sipping tea with his guest the Turkish Governor, trying to console him for the sudden change of fortune.
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T.E. Lawrence
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โ€ฆwe saw a lion take down a gazelle โ€“ I mean at close quarters. It quite took my breath away. It was as if something happened to the gazelle at the moment of capture, something awe-inspiringly terrible and wonderful at the same time โ€“ as if, in knowing the gazelle was to die a dreadful death, ripped apart by the jaws of the lion, the Creator had given the captive a reprieve by taking her soul before she was dead, so that no pain would be felt because the essence had gone alreadyโ€ฆ And I saw the eyes of the gazelle again in France [during WWI], and it struck me that perhaps a heartsick God had looked down and taken up a soul, leaving only the shell of a man.โ€ [of those who developed PTSD and/or โ€œwar neurosesโ€]
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Jacqueline Winspear (Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs, #6))
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I realized with a shock that his wife and medium was Jeanne Girard, now superficially young and beautiful. Her name was now Lorenza Feliciani, and she vaguely resembled the shining, irresistible Corinna. How that confused, greedy creature must have longed for Corinna's marvelous and destructive beauty. How she must have admired and envied, to burn the idea into her soul so that she could carry it with her even through the mealstorm of rebirth!
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Maria Szepes. Orsi (The Red Lion: The Elixir of Eternal Life)
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You are the heirs of infinite love and light. Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness. Come out into the vivacious light of the day where all the glory resides. Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices. You are the most fascinating expression of Mother Nature. Your soul is the expression of the whole Universe. All the power in the universe is born with you in your biology. Recognize them, realize them and ultimately utilize them in the pursuit of spreading love, harmony and peace.
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Abhijit Naskar (The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance (Neurotheology Series))
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Some lives are like steps and stairs, every period an achievement built on a previous success. Other lives hum with the arc of the swift spear. Only ever one thing, that dedicated life, from start to finish, but how magnificently concentrated its journey. The trajectory seems so true as to be proof of predestination. Still other lives are more like the progress of a child scrabbling over boulders at a lakesideโ€”now up, now down, always the destination blocked from view. Now a wrenched ankle, now a spilled sandwich, now a fishhook in the face.
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Gregory Maguire (The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked / Son of a Witch / Out of Oz / A Lion Among Men: A Special Collection of the Inspiration for the Major Motion Pictureโ€”Now Streaming)
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Even Europe joined in. With the most modest friendliness, explaining that they wished not to intrude on American domestic politics but only to express personal admiration for that great Western advocate of peace and prosperity, Berzelius Windrip, there came representatives of certain foreign powers, lecturing throughout the land: General Balbo, so popular here because of his leadership of the flight from Italy to Chicago in 1933; a scholar who, though he now lived in Germany and was an inspiration to all patriotic leaders of German Recovery, yet had graduated from Harvard University and had been the most popular piano-player in his classโ€”namely, Dr. Ernst (Putzi) Hanfstรคngl; and Great Britain's lion of diplomacy, the Gladstone of the 1930's, the handsome and gracious Lord Lossiemouth who, as Prime Minister, had been known as the Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald, P.C. All three of them were expensively entertained by the wives of manufacturers, and they persuaded many millionaires who, in the refinement of wealth, had considered Buzz vulgar, that actually he was the world's one hope of efficient international commerce.
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Sinclair Lewis (It Can't Happen Here)
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Albert died in an unfortunate accident sometime ago and was raised as a zombie by his amateur necromancer friend, Neil. Bubba was a new friend we had acquired in Vegas when helping him gain back the freedom he had previously gambled away. The fourth member of our group, a government agent and my girlfriend named Krystal, was out of town for work this week, thus I was conducting my first weekly scrabble tournament with just the three of us. Which leaves only me to be accounted for in the explanation. My name. which I hope you know by now. is Frederick Frankford Fletcher and I am a vampire, though still not the type that inspires swooning or terror.
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Drew Hayes (The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Fred, the Vampire Accountant, #1))
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What though some suffer and die, what though they lay down their lives for the testimony of Jesus and the hope of eternal life--so be it--all these things have prevailed from Adam's day to ours. They are all part of the eternal plan; and those who give their "all" in the gospel cause shall receive the Lord's "all" in the mansions which are prepared. . . . We have yet to gain that full knowledge and understanding of the doctrines of salvation and the mysteries of the kingdom that were possessed by many of the ancient Saints. O that we knew what Enoch and his people knew! Or that we had the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon, as did certain of the Jaredites and Nephites! How can we ever gain these added truths until we believe in full what the Lord has already given us in the Book of Mormon, in the Doctrine and Covenants, and in the inspired changes made by Joseph Smith in the Bible? Will the Lord give us the full and revealed account of the creation as long as we believe in the theories of evolution? Will he give us more guidance in governmental affairs as long as we choose socialistic ways which lead to the overthrow of freedom? We have yet to attain that degree of obedience and personal righteousness which will give us faith like the ancients: faith to multiply miracles, move mountains, and put at defiance the armies of nations; faith to quench the violence of fire, divide seas and stop the mouths of lions; faith to break every band and to stand in the presence of God. Faith comes in degrees. Until we gain faith to heal the sick, how can we ever expect to move mountains and divide seas? We have yet to receive such an outpouring of the Spirit of the Lord in our lives that we shall all see eye to eye in all things, that every man will esteem his brother as himself, that there will be no poor among us, and that all men seeing our good works will be led to glorify our Father who is in heaven. Until we live the law of tithing how can we expect to live the law of consecration? As long as we disagree as to the simple and easy doctrines of salvation, how can we ever have unity on the complex and endless truths yet to be revealed? We have yet to perfect our souls, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel, and to walk in the light as God is in the light, so that if this were a day of translation we would be prepared to join Enoch and his city in heavenly realms. How many among us are now prepared to entertain angels, to see the face of the Lord, to go where God and Christ are and be like them? . . . Our time, talents, and wealth must be made available for the building up of his kingdom. Should we be called upon to sacrifice all things, even our lives, it would be of slight moment when weighed against the eternal riches reserved for those who are true and faithful in all things. [Ensign, Apr. 1980, 25]
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Bruce R. McConkie