Top 42 Quotes About Epiphanies
#1. Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
Alain De Botton
#2. Terry Kitchen said that the only moments he ever experienced as non-epiphanies, when God left him alone, were those following sex and the two times he took heroin.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#3. Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition.
Sam Keen
#4. People don't want information; they want epiphanies.
Sam Horn
#5. People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.
Bryant McGill
#6. I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.
Tom Barbash
#7. Life never seems to prepare us sufficiently for epiphanies. ... they are not magical intrusions from another world, but reality, naked, and without shame.
Monks Of New Skete
#8. The feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers
all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.
Sue Monk Kidd
#9. Sometimes, if you want to live and breathe tomorrow, you have to dive into the black depths today, and that is a leap of faith - faith in your U-boat, and your crew - beside which the saints' religious epiphanies amount to nothing.
Neal Stephenson
#10. I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.
Erin Morgenstern
#11. Epiphanies do not arise through direct regurgitation of what came before; epiphanies are unexpected slips into novelty.
Tad DeLay
#12. I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
John Green
#13. Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
George Lois
#14. Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#15. If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1.5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.
David Brooks
#16. Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.
Octavio Paz
#17. I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies. Just revisiting and rewriting. For me, momentum is far more important than inspiration.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#18. You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.
Keith Carter
#19. I can see in your eyes that there's no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them; they're history. You're in a darker place now.
Clive Barker
#20. Epiphanies are never convenient, and often arrive too late.
Neal Shusterman
#21. Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
Khaled Hosseini
#22. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.
Peter David
#23. I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: Oh look, another epiphany - as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what's on telly?
Anonymous
#24. Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.
Phil Cousineau
#25. I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.
Keanu Reeves
#26. Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.
S.L. Northey
#27. ... epiphanies rarely repeat themselves.
Pico Iyer
#28. This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.
Claire Hennessy
#29. I'm not usually sold on epiphanies. I am more interested in the opposite experience: not those rare moments of startling insight or realization, but-what I suspect are more common-those sudden flashes of anxious confusion and bewilderment.
Robert Atwan
#30. If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.
Barry Diller
#31. Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or epiphanies I've had in life happened during or after meditating. Everything becomes clear and the truth starts coming out.
Hugh Jackman
#32. Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
Jim Harrison
#33. The problem with epiphanies is the next day they feel like they happened to someone else. Inspiration will get you nowhere in life.
Scott Hutchins
#34. I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.
Chrisette Michele
#35. Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.
Donald Miller
#36. The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.
Dennis Lehane
#37. [T]he best, truest popular music is one born of journeys and arrivals, of long odysseys and lightning epiphanies.
Gerri Hirshey
#38. If you're trying to "transform reality" you need to give your ideas the time they need to mature; don't just look for sudden epiphanies. Cultivate your hunches.
Steven Johnson
#39. You have to schedule your epiphanies. And be patient.
Rachel Caine
#40. Caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.
Barbara Hurd
#42. There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time
the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
Carson McCullers
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