Stravaganza Salon Quotes & Sayings

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories. — Dave Brenner

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower. — Rabindranath Tagore

Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway ... Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards. — Michelle Obama

I will not be speaking here about skinheads or militias or survivalists or Klansmen, or even about the unashamed racism that has emerged in public life in recent years, not only in America. I will be speaking about a deeper tectonics that, in my opinion, produces the energy behind all these surface tremors and disruptions. If my remarks seem political, the whole of our life together is political, and to banish whatever sounds like politics from a conversation about where we are going and what we are doing is to trivialize and disable the conversation. — Marilynne Robinson

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse. — Aristotle.

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long. — Steve Lawson

Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving. — Sam Storms

A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is that other person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. A friend is that other person with whom we can look at a tree and say, "Isn't that beautiful," or sit on the beach and silently watch the sun disappear under the horizon. With a friend we don't have to say or do something special. With a friend we can be still and know that God is there with both of us. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out. — Ciara