Epiphany Quotes
Orson Scott Card
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.
1672 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.
2314 Albert Einstein
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
1186 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.
2984 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.
2836 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.
3957 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.
3936 Joss Whedon
The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
3983 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.
2967 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.
4297 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.
3119 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
2171 Ruth Dugdall
...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.
4197 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.
2930 Bret Easton Ellis
It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
3343 Alice Sebold
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
1132 V.S. Naipaul
Small things start us in new ways of thinking
4226 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?
4166 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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