Epiphany Quotes

Orson Scott Card

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him,
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

Margaret George

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Albert Einstein

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. Albert Einstein
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

P.K. Hrezo

And like an epiphany just landed on my shoulder, everything feels right. A calming acceptance settles over me, and I know, that even through the twists and uncertainty of time, it's okay if my heart sometimes leads me.

James Baldwin

Whose little boy are you?

James Riordan

What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along by darker forces, God is right there, saving those who respond to His urgings and trying to heal the rest.

Euphoria Godsent

One day I realized, I am what I'm looking for. The love I've been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it's fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice as much.

Damon Suede

For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.

Joss Whedon

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Sol Luckman

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.

John Irving

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

Amethyst Marie

Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they’re capable of so much less.

Ray Lamontagne

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold
And like the sky my soul is also turnin'
Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind

Ruth Dugdall

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

Leonard Bernstein

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Bret Easton Ellis

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Alice Sebold

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

V.S. Naipaul

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

John Boyne

What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

Peter Rogers

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

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