Provoost Park Quotes & Sayings

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. — Euripides

Technology, society, media: these are mutable forms, shape-shifting, forever re-purposing themselves. They sit within the wild, weird and wonderful frame of change. But there is a frame. — Simon Pont

Each man kills the thing he loves — Anthony Burgess

There was a sorry judge who lived at the Swan by himself. He got but little honor, and he got but little pelf [i.e. wealth], He drudged and judged from morn to night, no ass drudged more than he, And the more he drudged, and the more he judged, the sorrier judge was he. — St. George Tucker

We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary; we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us. — Eknath Easwaran

My thoughts turn to something I read once, something the Zen Buddhists believe. They say that an oak tree is brought into creation by two forces at the same time. Obviously, there is the acorn from which it all begins, the seed which holds all the promise and potential, which grows into a tree. Everybody can see that. But only a few can recognize that there is anther force operating here as well-the future tree itself, which wants so badly to exist that it pulls the acorn into being, drawing the seedling forth with longing out of the void, guiding the evolution from nothingness to maturity. In this respect, say the Zens, it is the oak tree that creates the very acorn from which it was born. — Elizabeth Gilbert

That's what I love about the Internet. Even if it's small-scale and you're just posting on a forum, that's an uncensored expression. That's what I love. — Felicia Day

My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed. — Mary Anne Radmacher

The only ones untouched by the keen madness of the times were the children and the dogs. And the dogs seemed a little nervous. — Daniel Abraham

Like my father told me, if at first you don't succeed, try again. And again. And again. But after that, give up. It's no good being stubborn. — Bryce C. Anderson

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it. — Peter Singer

When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom. — Terraine Francois