Tim Peake Space Walk Quotes & Sayings

shortly I should be able to live at peace in my cottage, with all the twenty four hours of the day to myself. Forty-six I am, and never yet had a whole week of leisure. What will 'for ever' feel like, and can I use it all? Please note its address from March onwards - Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset - and visit it, sometime, if you still stravage the roads of England in a great car. The cottage has two rooms; one, upstairs, for music (a gramophone and records) and one downstairs for books. There is a bath, in a demi-cupboard. For food one goes a mile, to Bovington (near the Tank Corps Depot) and at sleep-time I take my great sleeping bag, embroidered MEUM, and spread it on what seems the nicest bit of floor. There is a second bag, embroidered TUUM, for guests. The cottage looks simple, outside, and does no hurt to its setting which is twenty miles of broken heath and a river valley filled with rhododendrons run wild. I think everything, inside and outside my place, approaches perfection. — T.E. Lawrence

We need other human beings in order to be human. — Desmond Tutu

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits, which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.1 Leopold von Ranke — Joachim Fest

But when it did, when the first American fell to his knees, the government was ill prepared for the fallout and the sickness spread like wildfire. — Madeline Sheehan

Mining is the art of exploiting mineral deposits at a profit. An unprofitable mine is fit only for the sepulcher of a dead mule. — T.A. Rickard

Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually. — Chris Prentiss

True healing is not physical - it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease. — Judith Cornell

There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it. — Susanna Wesley

Our real innermost concern was to get as much money and praise as possible. To gain that end we could do nothing except write books and papers. — Leo Tolstoy

The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law. — John Calvin

From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance). — Brenda Shoshanna

What a pair of lungs! — Denis Johnson

What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent. — Laozi

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. — R. Buckminster Fuller