Quotes About Epiphany

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

If there was ever anything to know, now he knew he never had known it.

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late. —

Suddenly the enormity of it crashed down on me . . .

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognise, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years.

Nothing sudden is happening here. More is just suddenly being revealed.

And that's when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.

he realized, with the flicker of surprise that attends recognition of things already long known

Randall! Of course!" Roger smacked himself on the forehead, and felt his cheeks grow hot at Brianna's giggle. "You're going to think me a complete fool, but I've only just realized who you are.

'Australian Rules' was my moment of truth.

I ended up having an epiphany that no body of work I put out will ever mean as much to me as '3:33 AM.'

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

Theo's words had seeped into her and calmed her immediately. The 'we' had been an epiphany, revealing to her a new identity founded on the strength of love. It existed both inside her and outside, through Theo. Never again would there be emptiness. Mama Fina had been right: there was magic in words. The 'we' had eclipsed her fear.

Ellijay, hadn't she known

As soon as I set foot there, everything I had imagined was forgotten; Pyrrha had become what is Pyrrha; and I thought I had always known

There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!

This story leads us to epiphanies—when we suddenly understand essential truths about life—which were the eighth wonder of life.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Rather than steering people straight to the heart of the problem, we nudge them to arrive there on their own, because the most powerful truths—the ones people take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

Except he hadn't fully appreciated what he had until it was gone.

Hell is the truth seen too late,