"We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them."

-- Robert E. Ornstein

#Knowing Quotes #Action Quotes

“If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart.”
“In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.”
“I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other”
“Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.”
“Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.”
“Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.”
“What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.”
“I grew up in a house of forthright women.”

Source : "This much I know: Chris O'Dowd" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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