"Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words."

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Source : Peter Abelard (2012). “Historia Calamitatum - The Story Of My Misfortunes (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

Peter Abelard

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“Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.”
“Create more value than you capture.”
“The suburb was the major element of Australian society.”
“That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.”
“I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.”

Source : "In 'The Rover,' Guy Pearce Takes A Bleak Road Trip". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. June 18, 2014.
“I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.”

Source : Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale
“The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet
“People mistakenly believe that if you do nothing but train you can only get better. You've got to work hard, but the harder you work the harder you must rest and relax.”

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