Sometimes God's way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

YOUR GREATER ANIMALThey say that if you areEver confronted byA lion or bear,To never act scared.Instead act likeYou are the greater animalAnd that they'reThe hareThat you are aboutTo tear.This has beenProvenAnd compared.This is how presidentsAre lovedAnd feared.Each one of us has an animalWithin usThat is armed withMental,Physical orSpiritual giftsThat could shoot spearsThrough the air.So next timeYou are confronted inA fight that seems unfair,Just remember the lion and the bear.MAGNIFYYour greater animalAnd all that feel your magnificenceWill quickly step awayAnd disappear.

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.

I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.

Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?— asked a gray female pup. —Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he's scared of the raghnaid?

What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.

The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to the Holy Church. (The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo).

So the gods must mean something else,— said Jix."God, not gods!" insisted Johnnie.Nick threw up his hands. "God, gods, or whatever," said Nick. "Right now, it doesn't matter whether it's Jesus, or Kukulcan, or a dancing bear at the end of the tunnel. What matters is that we have a clue, and we have to figure it out.""Why?" Johnnie asked again. "Why does God – excuse me, I mean "the Light of Universal Whatever'- why does it just give us a freakin' impossible clue? Why can't it just tell us what we're supposed to do?—"Because," said Mikey. —the Dancing Bear wants us to suffer.

A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.

Perhaps the only reason why you worry in life, tarry your goals and bury your joy is that you are still bearing the untold story of you untouched, which seems to bang on the doors of your heart every time! Go and open the way, and fulfill your destiny!

Names have a great influence on the destiny of the person, who bears the name

It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.