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

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.

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.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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

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

People die of fright and live of confidence.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

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

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.