Syler Homes Quotes & Sayings

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around. — Robert Crais

God is love - He is gracious and forgives. — Jim George

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is. — Jay Neugeboren

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend. — Anurag Shourie

There's a general assumption now that every man in a position of power is or will soon be corrupt and oppressive. Yet the Greeks understood and praised a positive male energy that has accepted authority. — Robert Bly

But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that is created so that we can appreciate its beauty without clinging to it as if it were a lasting possession. Our lives can indeed be seen as a process of becoming familiar with death, as a school in the art of dying ... all these times have passed by like friendly visitors, leaving you with dear memories but also with the sad recognition of the shortness of life. In every arrival there is a leave-taking; in every reunion there is a separation; in each one's growing up there is a growing old; in every smile there is a tear; and in every success there is a loss. All living is dying and all celebration is mortification too. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. — Alberto Manguel