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One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.

One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as it does its fake aura of purity and virtue while fronting some of the ugliest ideas this planet has ever seen. Closing people's hearts when it should be opening them. Making them proud of things they should be ashamed of. And ashamed of things they should be proud of.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Only your mind can produce fear.

On the other side of the fear live your possibilities.

[on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

Pain throws your heart to the ground Love turns the whole thing around Fear is a friend who's misunderstood But I know the heart of life is good

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.

People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness.

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.