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01Undated

Mistakes happen and life is full of twists and turns, but you mustn’t let any set backs hold you back from moving forward. Life is too short to dwell on things that have gone wrong.

Emily Williams / quote

02Undated

This seems to be happening more and more, the dreams from the past blurring into reality and sadly, I preferred to be in the dream world rather than reality.

Emily Williams / quote

03Undated

Sometimes you just need the comforts of home, the familiarity of your own family bed and only the pampering a mother can do.

Emily Williams / quote

04Undated

What would your young students say, who have come so far to hear you and prefer your severe lectures to ease of a worldly life, if they should discover you secretly a slave to your passions and a victim of those weaknesses from which your rules secured them?

Emily Williams / quote

05Undated

We are all a slave to our passions

Emily Williams / quote

06Undated

Time they say is a great healer, but in this case, I am not sure that is true.

Emily Williams / quote

07Undated

The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.

Emily Williams / quote

08Undated

Abelard to Heloise – Banish me, therefore, for ever from your heart – it is the best advice I can give, for the remembrance of a person we have loved guiltily can not be hurtful, whatever advances we may have made in the way of virtue.

Emily Williams / quote

09Undated

I gulped and remained silent, a tear streamed down my face as I looked away, hoping she didn’t notice.

Emily Williams / quote

10Undated

Sometimes there are people in this world that you meet. Most of these people remain just that, passing acquaintances that further down the line you will struggle to remember their names, let alone picture their faces and it all fades into a distant past almost like a dissolving aspirin. Some acquaintances become friends, but again these come and go with only a few remaining consistent. However, occasionally you will meet someone that changes who you are and who you will become.

Emily Williams / quote

11Undated

Sometimes you may have not even talked to that person, just seen them at a distance, but inside something has ignited. It may be curiosity, to be able to understand the thoughts in that person’s head, their views on the world and how they can make you feel as a person.

Emily Williams / quote

12Undated

It became evident, that in Paris, only one man could fulfil Heloise’s educational needs, Peter (or as the French called him, Pierre) Abelard, a thirty-seven year old philosopher and teacher

Emily Williams / quote

13Undated

I can still smell dog poo everywhere. It stinks.

Emily Williams / quote