"In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the direction of the world can change."

-- Mark Klett

#Past Quotes #Important Quotes #World Quotes

“Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.”
“You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.”
“What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.”
“Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.”
“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.”
“The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.”
“I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.”
“Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.”

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