Epiphany Quotes

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  Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of My Son" by Kelly S. Buckley, (p. 133), 2010.

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• 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.

  Casar Jacobson

  Humility, Greatness, Self

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• An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Heaven, Earth, Ascending

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• Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

  Thomas Merton

  Love Is, Poverty

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.254, Macmillan

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• Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Everyday, Thankfulness

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• I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Commitment, Fighting

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• I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Inspiration, Waiting, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Believe, Feel Good, Soul

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• There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human.

  Herman Melville

  Beautiful, Light, Shining

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• If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Looks, Wilderness

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• A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render...
  the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Artist, Radiance

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• The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

  John Donne

  Friday, Morning, Passion

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• An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Inspiration, Tolerance

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking

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• By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

  James Joyce

  Spiritual, Memorable, Men

  "Stephen Hero". Book by James Joyce, 1944.

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• Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

  Phil Cousineau

  Everyday, Ordinary, Myth

  Phil Cousineau (2003). “Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives”, p.19, Conari Press

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• Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

  Christian Wiman

  Garden, Religion, Backyards

  Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.147, Copper Canyon Press

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• All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Art, Years

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• Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds, say, engineering and business, you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.

  Justine Musk

  Baby, Sex, Moving

  "Elon Musk's first wife explains what it takes to become a billionaire" by Madeline Stone, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2015.

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• I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.

  Elvis Presley

  Knows, Get Back, Know How

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• Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Age

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• When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

  A. C. Dixon

  Real, Thinking, Order

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• I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

  Lucy Lawless

  Night, Acting, Sitting

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• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  Ted Allen

  Wine, White, Cake

  "Ted Allen / 'Queer Eye' for a wine guy". Interview with W. Blake Gray, www.sfgate.com. October 27, 2006.

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